Only two years into the war in Syria, over 3,500 journalists had traveled through Camp Za'atari to tell stories of the Syrian people who were forced out of their country to live in exile in Jordan. The stories told were somewhat black and white and largely tragic. In response to the mainstream media reporting of the refugee experience, Felsman Fellow Laura Doggett organized two workshops to give Syrian girls living as refugees in Jordan's camps and urban areas cameras and the chance to tell their own stories.

18-year-old Bushra remembers her brother, who she lost in the war, and his gentle, humorous ways through observing nature and her new urban setting in this visual haiku. Bushra is from Dara'a, Syria and now lives as a refugee in Irbid, Jordan. “When I enrolled in the workshop it was really nice for me to have a chance to change my life for the better. We gave our all and shared our innermost beings. Of course, there is more for the world to see because our time was short. I hope from the bottom of my heart no one reaches a plateau.... there has to be something new in my life. Everyone who sees the film will of course say that it is simple, but everything great starts off simple.”