The seventies, Salwa Dana, excelled in playing her role in the movie A Thread of Indigo, which deals with the case of 9 young men who leave the city of Hebron at the end of 1915 AD, to participate in the First World War, but they disappear in the mountains of the city during their departure towards the Beersheba train station, and in the year 2022 the Israeli occupation authorities dig On Al-Sahla Street, a mass grave containing the remains of unknown persons was uncovered.

The mystery of the disappearance
And Dana indicated that the film reveals, through Salwa's granddaughter's search for the mystery of her grandfather's disappearance in the First World War, by tracing the secret of the indigo thread that she encounters everywhere, as the city's women used to wrap a woolen thread in indigo at the hands of the young men leaving for the travel wars in Berlak, In order to identify where they belong.

She pointed out that the film, which was written and researched by Ahmed Al-Harbawi, and directed by Ibrahim Al-Muhtaseb, released a new song from the popular heritage of the city of Hebron, performed by Zakia Ayyash, which is “If you intend to travel”, and it is related to absence and departure, and it was sung to travelers, pilgrims and absentees 150 years ago at least. And it was adopted as the songs of the Berlak era of travel, stressing that Hebron's memory is full of wounds, stories and memories, and we have to uncover it in order for the wound to heal and to return to its civilized face and its luster.

innovative way
The writer, Ahmed Al-Harbawi, believes that the film highlights a series of stories that must appear, even if its main axis is the loss of a group of young people from the city. They left the city of Hebron at the end of 1915 AD to participate in the First World War, but they disappeared. This is a story worth remembering in the tragedies of the First War. , explaining that people were choosing symbols to know the fate of those who go to war in that era.

He explained that the indigo thread is an innovative way for the women of Hebron in the Near East, one of these symbols, which came after the state of recession after the war, and the high prices.

We are nothing
Al-Harbawi stated that the film reveals the Israeli planning to seize Palestine before the Balfour Declaration and the Basel Conference, the first Israeli conference, indicating that the conflict is older, and the occupation still doubts our existence in their attempts to obliterate our identity and history.

He pointed out that the story of the young men, which took place a hundred years ago, proves that Britain dealt with the Palestinians as nothing that does not exist for them, pointing out that the British filled the mass grave of the young men in 1932 AD, and the Israeli occupation repeated the same thing that the British did when the grave that contained the remains of these young men was discovered. , stressing that if these excavations had anything related to the occupation, they would have revealed it and announced it, but they want to obliterate the ancient history of the city and the identity of its people.