In 1990 Doctor Benny Mizrachi, the Jewish dentist from Cherry Hill, New Jersey, immigrates to Israel, but does not tell the authorities that in the crate marked Medical Supplies is an atomic bomb. Years before, at the onset of the Six Day war, in the Jabalya refugee camp in Gaza, Mahmud ibn Salim ibn Faruk, at the age of ten, witnesses the horrifying death of his father. Mahmud goes into shock and falls into a long dreamless sleep.