A well-meaning two-hander full of hot-button topics and charged with potential, the film is simply too polite and too timid to tackle the big questions it raises about race, religion, hatred and politics.

I didn't believe one word of this terribly well-intentioned plea for understanding between Jews and Palestinians, a construct that quickly collapses under the weight of its own earnestness.

A topical and pertinent film, concisely written, grounded by its profundity and made real and accessible by two superb performances