Ten years after breaking a world record for cycling around the world award-winning travel
writer Julian Sayarer returns to two wheels on the roads of Israel and occupied Palestine. His
route weaves from the ancient hills of Galilee along the blockaded walls of the Gaza Strip and
down to the Bedouin villages of the Naqab Desert. He speaks with Palestinian hip-hop artists
who wonder if music can change their world Israelis hoping that kibbutz life can and
Palestinian cycling clubs determined to keep on riding despite the army checkpoints and
settlers that bar their way. Pedalling through a military occupation in the chance encounters
of the roadside a bicycle becomes a vehicle of more than just travel and cuts through the
tension to find a few simple truths and some hope. As the miles pass the journey becomes a
meditation on making change ? how people in dark times keep their spirit and go on believing
that a different world is possible.
