In 2023, a Glasgow-based Palestinian filmmaker unearths ten never-before-seen archival films in Glasgow depicting the life of a Scottish missionary living in Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s. The filmmaker begins a road trip across Europe and the Middle East towards Palestine as a form of archival repatriation to the Palestinian people. Through archival encounters, Palestinians in the diaspora witness their ancestral past and, in the process, create a new archive. ‘Before Our Diaspora’ takes us on a unique journey, weaving the archive of an unspoken past into an investigation of a heightened present and uncertain future, exploring the power of film as a form of collective witnessing.