Ashley Wells, an American graduate student with her fiancé Najid, a Palestinian Christian, becomes involved with injured enemies thrown together in a Jerusalem hospital following a demonstration that turns violent.

When Palestinian Christian college student Sabria lives through the little known 1948 catastrophe of her people, she learns the cost of being Arab in the tumultuous time of Israel's birth pangs. Despite enjoying both Jewish and Muslim friends, she falls in love with an American Christian supporter of Israel.

When newlyweds Ashley and Najid stay overnight with Fatima's family in Bethlehem, Israeli soldiers attack and take 10-year-old Ali to prison in Israel. Can a Palestinian Christian from Israel marry a West Bank Muslim girl who now follows Jesus? What can Ashley do to mollify Fatima's father's determination to not lose his beloved daughter?