The basis for this film is the concept of the “Eternal Return,” or ouroboros, the symbol of the snake eating its tail. Moving towards forgetting the past, we follow a single character through five locations: the Gaza Strip in Occupied Palestine, Los Angeles and the Mojave Desert in the United States, Matera and Martina Franca in Italy, and a castle in Brittany, France. ​Ouroboros​ takes the viewer on a lyrical journey through time and space, weaving ruins into reconstruction and pastoral landscape into 13th-century architecture. Framed as an homage to the Gaza Strip, the film cites this as a place where civilization has begun to end  and where a new beginning emerges, for better or worse. The first feature by experimental filmmaker and  artist Basma Alsharif, the film tackles questions of community, landscape, and the failures of civilization.