Yellow Asphalt

Black spot

An Israeli tanker runs over a Bedouin boy who was crossing the highway with his donkey. The truck driver and his help decide to move the body to the side of the road and flee. The truck's self ignition fails and by the time they repair it Bedouins surround them. The tense, almost wordless stand-off is broken when the truck help, under orders from the truck driver, removes an extra wheel from the truck and gives it to the Bedouins to pass judgment on.

Here is not there

A council of village elders meet to discuss the marital problems of a Bedouin man and his German wife. The wife, who wants to leave with her two children back to Germany, is instructed to return to her tent and her family. She decides to escape in the middle of the night with her two children. She runs most of the night, carrying her younger child and leading her older one, before falling asleep exhausted. Her husband had pursued her across the desert wadis in a 4WD and finds her. She flags down an Israeli truck whose driver hides her, but her crying children reveal her presence to her husband. She takes flight with the children, but is ultimately caught by her husband and stoned.

This entire episode turns out to be the cautionary daydream of the German wife in question, who ultimately decides to leave in the middle of the night with her two children anyway.

Red roofs

A Palestinian housekeeper, wife of a Bedouin leader, has an extramarital affair with an Israeli Jewish farmer who has a wife and children of his own. Bedouin children see them making love in the desert and inform her husband, who beats her up. She decides to seek shelter at the farmer's place, because he had promised to protect her. However, the farmer decides to avoid trouble with the Bedouin tribe and asks his Bedouin farmhand to kill the woman and dispose of the body and gun. The farmhand is unable to kill her and takes her to an unspecified Israeli city, lets her go and tells her not to come back. She returns anyway, the farmer shoots her dead. The farmhand disposes of the body and gun inefficiently, leading to the discovery of both. A blood feud is thus inadvertently started between the family of the housekeeper and that of the farmyard help. The farmhand ultimately undergoes the primeval "fire test" to prove his innocence and tells the Bedouin elders about the guilt of the Israeli farmer. The farmhand is excommunicated from his clan, but given a chance to redeem himself by killing the farmer. He fails to do so, and the Israeli farmer is shown being pursued by the housekeeper's brother. The final scene shows the farmhand, an outcast from his society, hitching a ride into the same Israeli city with words he had used to chide the housekeeper about living in two disparate worlds playing in the background.