For miles that is all there is.
Drinking water is as remote as the nearest city.
The time is 1943, the place the Negev. The people, a group of young Jewish men seeking to create a settlement in the Negev on land that the Jewish National Fund had bought from the local Beduoin. In the course of learning if the land was suitable for agriculture, these idealistic young men who had come from Europe, learned survival skills through trial and error. Their sole contact with the established Jewish community living further north, came in the form of a weekly supply van that, in addition to staples, brought mail and visitors. The van would arrive at Kibbutz Gvulot after a five to six hour drive through Gaza and Rafiah and return the following morning.