Twenty years ago, at the height of the Lebanese civil war, Swee Chai Ang left her job as a London surgeon and set off for Beirut. Now she revisits the Palestinian refugee camps where she worked and witnessed the infamous massacre. She encounters old friends, colleagues and survivors as she remembers the past, and finds out how life has changed for them. She also meets a former member of the Christian right-wing Phalange militia - an implacable enemy of the Palestinians during the civil war.