Khaled Abu Ali, a Sufi Musilm, an artist, musician, theatre director and actor, is asked by 2 Jewish orthodox players to direct a show, based on a play they are writing.
The declared aim of the show is to raise awareness among Jews to the importance of rebuilding the Third holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Khaled happily cooperates until he understands that rebuilding the holy Temple means the destruction of the Dome of the Rock, one of the holiest places in Islam, which stands in the same place.
Abu Ali is an unconventional documentary about the Israeli-Arab conflict. Not even one cliche is heard throughout the film - not about the "occupation" or "refugees" or any other word that became a symbol.
Even the discussion about the Holocaust sounds as if it was taken from another planet: Khaled, the Arab Muslim, is telling his Jewish orthodox friends about the Holocaust things they didn't know before. He knows as he once played a Holocaust survivor in play called "Arbeit Mach Frei" (Work Liberates) - which was the slogan hung in Nazi concentration camps
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