Director Hany Abu-Assad (NAZARETH 2000, HRWIFF 2001; RANA'S WEDDING, HRWIFF 2003) follows cab driver Rajai and his passengers in Ramallah and Jerusalem, as they detour around roadblocks and speed through short cuts. Rajai's passengers form a heterogeneous group of ordinary people and local celebrities-including politician Hanan Ashrawi and filmmaker B.Z. Goldberg (PROMISES, HRWIFF 2001) -who, with humor and sincerity, express divergent opinions about the situation in Palestine and views of the conflict with Israel while being bused around in his van. Interwoven with these powerful interviews is Rajai's life and dreams: we hear about his family, his sideline pursuit of smuggling illegal CDs, his view of the political situation and solutions for it, his dreams of a future abroad. Winner of the 2003 HRWIFF Nestor Almendros Prize for courage in filmmaking

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