We were the kids of those parents who rose up in Wadi Salib in 1959, who absorbed our parents' humiliation, as far as to be ashamed of them.- Reuven Abergil, interviewee

The Black Panthers in Israel are the social movement of second-generation Mizrahim in Israel Jews originating from Arab and Muslim countries. The uprising of the Black Panther in the early 1970s had a radical effect on Israeli society. It signalled an awakening of Mizrahi cultural consciousness that continues to this day. The movement took the Mizrahi class struggle out of its local and nationalist framework, linking it to the civil rights struggle in the United States, third world Marxism and, for the first time, to the Palestinian struggle in Israel.

In this film, key leaders in the movement speak of the Mizrahi struggle in the 1970s and of now, of the tragic role played by Shas in quelling that struggle, of the relationship between the occupation and the oppression of the Palestinians, and the social and cultural oppression of the Mizrahim.