In this sad and moving story of life on the street in Israel, young male prostitutes and hustlers narrate their interconnected tales of violence, exploitation, and survival. Braving Palestinian police officers, Israeli Secret Service agents, lecherous landlords, Tel Aviv jail cells, and city-wide curfews, these teenagers explain why they take risky chances every single day of their lives. With a gritty and observational style, Gan shows an aspect of the Middle East that is usually silenced by ubiquitous media portrayals of terrorism and Arab-Israeli conflict. Indirectly speaking to this wider political context, the documentary’s two main characters, both Palestinian, work the streets with other Israeli and Palestinian runaways, selling their bodies to older Israeli men. Their fate serves as more than just a metaphor for concomitant exploitations and local abuses that define the larger Middle Eastern landscape. An intimate portrait of Arab Israeli relations drawn against the grain of several common American stereotypes, Gan humanizes the plight of Arab youth by chronicling their everyday struggles on the street.  JJ