Field Diary is a film journal, made in the occupied territories immediately beforeand during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. Through encounters (sometimes unwelcome) with Israeli soldiers, interviews with Israeli settlers and Palestinian refugees, relentless observation of the everyday minutiae of occupation in the towns and villages, and long-held traveling shots of the disputed landscape, Gitai fashions a remarkable collage that examines, in his words, "how violence against the Palestinians is legitimated." In addition to dealing with the occupation at the everyday level, Gitai is also concerned with exploring the justifications people use to explain their participation in the occupation. "Thus it is also the story of the occupier’s inability to face up to his own actions."