Palæstinensiske Salmas nye nabo er den israelske forsvarsminister, der flytter ind over for hendes citronplantage på grænsen mellem Israel og Vestbredden. Af sikkerhedshensyn skal Salmas citrontræer fjernes, men hun tager sagen helt til højesteret. Kampen påkalder sig interesse fra ministerens kone Mira, og mod alle odds udvikler hun og Salma et usynligt bånd.
Året er 1948 efter delingen af Palæstina og oprettelsen af staten Israel. En ung kvinde, Miral, er forelsket i en politisk aktivist, og det vender hendes liv på hovedet. Pludselig er hendes liv i fare, og hun er tvunget til at vælge side. Miral er en dramatisk skildring af, hvordan livet leves i krigens skygge - og hvordan kærlighed, håb og drømme kan overleve alt.
Naomi, an Israeli Mossad agent, is sent to Germany to protect Mona, a Lebanese informant recovering from plastic surgery to assume her new identity. Together for two weeks in a quiet apartment in Hamburg, the relationship that develops between the two women is soon exposed to the threat of terror that is engulfing the world today. In this game of deception, beliefs are questioned, choices are made, and their fate takes a surprising turn.
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona's father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona's wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.
As Islamic morality squads stage arbitrary raids in Tehran and as fundamentalists seize hold of the universities, Azar Nafisi, an inspired teacher, secretly gathers six of her most committed female students to read forbidden western classics. Unaccustomed to being asked to speak their minds, they soon removed their veils, their stories intertwining with the novels they read: just like the heroines of Nabokov, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry James or Jane Austen, the women in Nafisi’s living room dare to dream, hope and love as we experience the complexity of the lives of individuals facing political, moral and personal siege.