Each child builds the house/sandcastle of their dreams.

The artist takes an instant photograph of the child and the house.

Each child gets this photograph as a souvenir. 

The house is demolished, and the next child starts building.

Adults are watching. 

The children recount their experience showing the adults the traces of what happened; the instant photograph. 

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The performance touches upon several current political issues. The children's play is an allusion to their families' histories. The Palestinians from the West Bank are largely cut off from the beaches. They are restricted from travelling and have to go through several checkpoints to get from one place to another. Sometimes, even that proves futile. Israeli authorities deny them permission to build and expand their villages and they are also denying them their right to return. The older generations remember their expulsion and have photographs showing their former houses, homes that memory has rendered ideal and dreamlike, that are now demolished. Their lands that are now part of Israel.​