Ali Messalam, 14, learned to hate Jews growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon. Yearning to be accepted in his new Berlin neighborhood, Ali mixes with the wrong crowd. An anti-Semitic teen prank turns ugly and Ali gets caught vandalizing the apartment of his family's upstairs neighbor Alex Zamskov, an aging yet feisty Russian Jewish widower. Reluctantly, Ali's punishment is to refurbish the home of his victim, with whom he forges an uncommon bond. This touching story about unlikely friendships, trust, loss and the art of forgiveness blurs the lines between enemies and friends with humor and pathos.

Audience Award, Boston Jewish Film Festival, 2011.