Sama is ten years old, and every morning she goes to work. Her family fled the north of Gaza and now lives in a tent in Deir al-Balah: Sama, her mother, three brothers and three sisters. Her father stayed behind in Gaza City, and she does not know when she will see him again. With no gas or electricity left, Sama walks the streets and markets gathering scraps of plastic and cardboard to sell as fuel and carries home whatever she can find. It is heavy, dirty work for a child, and the whole family depends on it.

But Sama is still a child. In quiet moments she turns bottle caps into toys, some to keep and some to sell. She laughs without warning, then falls silent for long stretches, heavier on some days than others. When a tent becomes a classroom, she is there. When she can, she heads for the sea and the open sky. Filmed by her neighbour Rabab Khamis, who lives in a tent nearby, 'Sama' is a tender, intimate portrait of a girl doing a grown-up's job while holding on to three simple wishes: for the war to end, to see her father again, and to go back to school.