The youth from Lyd, inside present-day Israel, start off mimicking the gestures and English lyrics of the US rappers they see on TV, their songs celebrating materialism devoid of the social justice message upon which the genre of hip-hop was founded. However, this changes as the musicians' political awareness is sharpened by the rapid deterioration of the human rights situation in Palestine and they begin to see themselves in the images of America's oppressed black urban youth. Instead of performing empty songs to Jewish Israeli party-goers, as they did before their political awakening, DAM begin performing Arabic-language raps celebrating Palestinian literary figures, and decrying the realities of Palestinian life under Israeli rule in front of ever-growing crowds of Palestinian youth.

DAM's artists, brothers Tamer and Suhell Nafar and Mahmood Jrere, are part of Israel's internally displaced Palestinians -- the descendants of those who in 1948 were forced from their homes in places like Haifa, Nazareth and Jaffa but remained inside the 1949 ceasefire line, the internationally-recognized demarcation between Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip (Israel has never declared its borders). read more about film review