Jadi and Bassee live peacefully in an idyllic garden, if not for the fact that the alleged owner of the garden comes to beat them every day. Jewish American writer David travels to Israel to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and is soon mired in the cycles of violence and compassion that haunt everyday life. The Victims weaves these two disparate styles and stories to dig into the parallel and often contradictory narratives of Palestinian and Israeli histories.