The city awakens. Workers from the surrounding areas have to pass the checkpoints. The market opens. Morning prayers are performed.

The first rush hour in Jerusalem is over, adults are at work, kids at school. Restaurants prepare for the lunch hour and at Yad Vashem, work has begun in the archive. Every day routines are followed in the Catholic music school and at the Yeshiva.

A peace activist goes on patrol, the Muezzin calls for midday prayer, Jim Hollander pursues his career as a paparazzi.

Thousands of pilgrims visit the holy sites. A political photographer turns paparazzi, the police patrol the market and a very old lady reminisces an eventful life.

Demonstrations in the refugee camps, a phone call to prison, an investigation into the shooting of a Palestinian. And a brother visits the monument of his dead sister.

Some protagonists visit lost places of childhood and places of catastrophe. A rally is dispersed by police on horseback and a group of women visit the beauty parlour to prepare for a wedding.

The day comes to a close and while some prepare for a night out, others get ready for work.

Performers enter the stage, there is music, stand up comedy. Those who don’t go out, pursue their interests at home. The paramedics attend to their first assignments and the wedding parties begin.

The city is divided between those who can sleep, and those who lie awake at night. Between those who work and those who go out to play.

2am in Jerusalem, in the Holy City. Emergency services and police report a quiet night. No skirmishes, hardly any assignments, no fire - a quiet moment in a city of conflicts.