138 Pounds in My Pocket

In 1948, following the UN partition plan for Palestine, a war broke out between Arabs and Jews. In April 1948 a young teacher, Hind al-Husseini came across a large group of young children outside the Holy Sepulcher church in Jerusalem. They were survivors of a massacre in Deir Yassin, a village on the outskirts of Jerusalem. Hind al-Hussein established an orphanage in her Jerusalem home for these children. Today Dar al-Tifl al-Arabi is the largest Palestinian orphanage, and it includes a school and a college with more than 1500 pupils/students. The film is about how Husseini and her successors fill in the gaps when the state is unable to perform its function as provider of adequate welfare.