It's a scorching afternoon in Beirut. Forty-something mechanic Tony already has a chip on his shoulder about Palestinians so he's less than welcoming when 60 year old Yasser, the foreman of a construction crew working in the street outside, asks his to fix the faulty drainpipe on his balcony. Tony shuts the door in Yasser's face; Yasser replaces the pipe anyway only for Tony to smash it to pieces. Passions boil over and what should have been a trivial incident escalates quickly into a dispute that reverberates throughout the community that ends in a highly publicised trial.