In 1946, Evelyn Sert is 20 years old and an ardent Zionist. She emigrates from London to Palestine, where she works on a kibbutz, then becomes a hairdresser. When she falls in love with a man who turns out to be a terrorist working against the British, she becomes involved against her will in an episode of violence. Evelyn slowly becomes aware that the issues are more complicated than she had assumed, and in the process she begins to grow up.