In this first episode, Rob and Sarah are joined by a father and son who follow in their father's and grandfather's footsteps from Hackney to becoming caught up in Israel's War of Independence, and meet a woman whose grandmother survived one of the most notorious episodes of the Nakba.
Rob and Sarah are joined by a woman who wants to find out why, when she was a child, her aunts left Egypt for the new state of Israel, and a woman who wants to know what happened to her family as her grandfather struggled to hold on to his land and orange groves in Jaffa.