Sam, a counselor at an all-boys camp in Jordan, surveys the Jordan River after the Six-Day War. They were not affected, but the fighting happened close enough by that they can see the aftermath, including a body floating down the river towards him. He buries the body of a Palestinian fighter with the help of another counselor.

Sam tells this story to his friend Jibril when they first connected, and they become fast friends. Though Sam has never been to Israel, Jibril comes to Amman, the capital of Jordan, a number of times and they form a strong friendship.

Now retired, Sam and Jibril still stay close. As a retirement present, Jibril brings Sam with him to Switzerland where he is traveling to find one final source for a book he has been working on about his hometown of Haifa. Jibril is trying to collect as much information as he can on the history of his city, and the man he is traveling to see, Mr. Can'aan, supposedly has lots of family records and pictures from before 1948 which are very rare. Can'aan had been back years ago, but they missed each other and are now planning to meet in Zurich for the first time.

While waiting for Mr. Can'aan, Sam and Jibril go to a hookah bar and pass the time. There, a young woman enters whose last name matches that of the man Sam buried decades ago as a young man. He tells her the story, and it brings peace to her family, who had previously been in collective mourning for decades over the inability to find his body.