Mona Samouni was 10-years-old when she lost her home, her parents and 19 other relatives, after they were crushed before her eyes in one of the bombing raids of Israel's Operation Cast Lead in 2009. In an award-winning film, she speaks of her past experiences with an almost eerie detachment, as if she is telling someone else's story.

One can only guess at what is going on behind that calm facade, as she sends a heartbreaking message to other, luckier children: "I ask the children of the world to take good care of their mothers and fathers... People don't appreciate the blessings they have till they lose them."

For years after that shattering event, Mona obsessively drew and redrew the images that haunted her - "a sea of blood and body parts". She suffered recurring nightmares, fits of anger and lack of concentration at school. But thanks to a loving family environment and intensive therapy, she seems to be gradually recovering.