On April 9, 1948, fighters from Zionist militias attacked Deir Yassin, a Palestinian village on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing around 100 unarmed residents. The film pieces together archive footage from the period surrounding the siege, along with photographs and contemporary accounts, to reconstruct what happened in the village that day and in its immediate aftermath. It traces how news of the killings spread through Palestinian communities in the following weeks, fueling fear that drove thousands of families from their homes during the wider conflict of 1948. The narration situates the massacre within the collapse of British Mandate Palestine and the fighting between Jewish militias and Arab forces that preceded Israel's founding. Rather than dramatized reenactment, the film relies on the surviving visual record and historical testimony to lay out the sequence of events at Deir Yassin, presenting it as a pivotal, contested episode whose memory still shapes Palestinian and Israeli accounts of 1948.