Shortly after the birth of the state of Israel, Susan (Diane Baker) arrives from America to see where her Zionist fiancé was killed in the early days of the Arab-Israeli War. There, she is surprised to find herself falling in love with Dan (Tom Bell), a man secretly supplying guns to the Israeli cause. After Dan is caught in a terrorist ambush, he is rescued and given shelter by a pacifist Palestinian named Daoud (David Opatoshu), who happens to be the father of Dan's attacker.