Based on the writer Franco Fortini's book "The Dogs of Sinai," Fortini/Cani reflects on the Nazi occupation of Italy during World War II and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Fortini, a Jewish Communist, reads passages from his book, in which he discusses the rise of fascism in Italy and the growing anti-Arab sentiment in Western culture, while Straub and Huillet present seemingly tranquil landscape images. The third film in a highly unconventional trilogy on Zionism, Straub and Huillet's work presents ideas that are as topical today as they were thirty years ago.