translate English to German: Three years later, Ismael travels from Jenin to the northern hills on the Lebanese border, passing through the Holy City of Jerusalem, down to the edge of the Negev Desert in the south of the land visiting those children. The film is a journey throughout Israel which not only leads to the recipient families, but also attempts to reconstruct the events that took place in Jenin in 2005.
Das Herz von Jenin ist die Geschichte von Ahmed Khatib, einem von Israelis erschossenen Palästinenserjungen aus dem Flüchtlingslager Jenin, dessen Vater Ismail sich noch in der Stunde der Trauer entscheidet, die Organe seines Sohnes sechs israelischen Kindern zu spenden und damit deren Leben zu retten.