Zimmy loves to do two things in life: play the bass with his band, the Lou del Bello’s, and hang out in the city that he loves, Bologna. This time, though, his band members throw him for a loop: they organize a trip to teach music to kids in a Palestinian refugee camp. Can Zimmy turn them down? Obviously not: he goes and brings with him his friend Berna, a cook.

In Palestine Zimmy does just fine and in fact he develops a bond with a family, the Azzahs: Mohanned, his sister Mirna and their grandmother Um Yunis. While Berna tours the markets of every stripe to discover Palestinian flavors, Zimmy can’t understand why the Azzah family can’t go back to their village, Bejit Jibrin, from which they were banished in 1948. So he decides to go there himself, leaving behind the guys in his band …