The conflict between Israel and its neighbours is killing the Dead Sea. Whichever shore you look from, the Jordanian, Israeli or Palestinian, the Sea is drying up. Since 1930 its surface area has fallen by almost half, and huge sinkholes are leaving damage and destruction. Every year the water recedes further from the shoreline.

This film follows three people who are no longer willing to stand aside while the sea disappears. Instead, they plan an audacious act to try to save it: they’ll swim across the Dead Sea from the Jordanian side to the West Bank. Their goal is to make their governments finally sit together and start working for a solution.

No one has swum across the Dead Sea before, and not just because of the political challenges; the water is so salty that floating in it is easy, but it’s physically hard to swim. A lengthy stay in such salty water is also dangerous.

The swim is the dream of Oded Rahav, an Israeli entrepreneur and open water swimmer. During the preparations, he meets Yusuf Matari, a West Bank Palestinian who’s worked for 30 years as a lifeguard, and Munqeth Mehyar, the Jordanian director of EcoPeace, the only organization that brings together people from the three nations to work on ecological projects. The film follows the development of an unlikely friendship as the three men plan their swim across the Dead Sea.

But will their special relationship manage to overcome years of hostility and suspicion, and create change? And will they be able to save the Dead Sea together? Show less