This movie uses visual metaphor to convey the protagonist’s a loss of power and the loss of her heritage. In one of the earliest scenes the protagonist is physically “searched” by airport security and then forced to strip naked. Later on a young woman (the main character) and her male friend are driving in occupied Palestine when they are stopped by a car of Israeli army men. The army men force them to get out of the car with their hands up and then instruct them to undress, and the male friend tells them she is a woman. They allow her to remain clothes but still force him to strip naked.