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Bayyaratina (Our Orange Grove) recounts the story of Shoman's grandfather’s orange groves in Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza, which he started planting in 1929. Merging personal testimony, archival imagery, and realities on the ground, the film traces the life of the orchard, tended across three generations, and its eventual total destruction by occupying military forces, beginning with the early years of the Second Intifada in 2003, then culminating in 2009. Through poetic narration and still images, past and present, Bayyaratina evokes both beauty and rupture rooted in soil and exile. Layered across time, the film conjures a landscape shaped by memory, displacement and loss.