First Lesson in Peace explores the Jewish –Arab conflict through the eyes of a six year old girl, the director's daughter when she starts school at the mixed Arab- Jewish primary school - Neveh Shalom-The Oasis of Peace. This the first time a film has been made looking in from the inside at this unique human laboratory named Neveh Shalom, this unique school, first of its kind in Israel which provides Jewish and Arab children with an educational frame work for learning together. The film, in the form of a letter from father Yoram to his six year old daughter, follows the clashes and encounters that the child goes through during her first year in school and her first year in the reality of the Middle East. This letter-film will be given to her when she is much older and when she is in a position to better understand the thoughts and hopes that went with the parent's decision. The director, the son of Zionist immigrants to Israel from Australia, and his wife Ofira, whose father was killed by Arabs in one of the Arab- Israel wars, accompany Michal on her first days at school. . They are full of fears and apprehension, concern and many politically incorrect second thoughts, especially when both Yoram's Zionist father and Ofira's extreme right wing brother express opposition to the parent's decision on their young daughter's future education at this Arab- Jewish experimental school. The film reaches a climax on the Israel Memorial Day and Israel Independence Day which is also the Palestinian Al -Nachba- the Day of Disaster, bringing all those featured in the film into sharply differing views and situations, some complicated and angry, some courageous and surprising- but all demonstrating the great complexity and enduring difficulties of this multi-faceted conflict. In many ways this film represents an open, honest, and human representation, a virtual microcosm of the long and terrible conflict between two peoples and two cultures and the search for humane, honest and lasting solutions.