Throughout history, people have left their native lands for a variety of
reasons: religious or racial persecution, lack of political freedom and
economic deprivation.
Refugees and migrants are an integral part of our daily life, though
they stay unfamiliar of us.
The film shows a Chinese worker sitting by a roundabout in the shade of
an olive tree, far away from his native land, imported as a temporarily
workforce.
If he could dig a pit, deep enough , he might be able to reach
his home through this hole.
In the context of the film, the feeling of the migrant worker relates to
the images of the uprooted olive trees.
During the recent years many thousands of olive trees were uprooted by
the Israeli army in order to make place for building the separation wall
or the expanding of settlements. Those Olive trees, that belong to
Palestinian farmers in the Westbank were brought to Israel. Here they
were particulary planted in the middle of traffic circles or decorate
the entrances to small towns and villages
