Twelve-year-old Khaled, a boy from a Palestinian village, has dreamed all his life of seeing the sea. When a long-awaited school trip finally offers the chance, his excitement turns to heartbreak at a military checkpoint, where soldiers invalidate his permit and send him home. Refusing to let this denial define him, Khaled sets out alone toward the coast—guided only by hope, fragments of directions, and the belief that some horizons are worth chasing.

Meanwhile, his father Ribhi, an undocumented construction worker inside Israel, discovers that his son has gone missing. Forced to abandon the shadows that keep him safe, Ribhi begins a frantic search that risks arrest, deportation, and the fragile stability his family depends on.

Told through parallel journeys that move toward the same distant shoreline, The Sea is a tense and tender drama about borders—geographic, political, and emotional—and the lengths to which a child and a father will go to reclaim a dream. With intimate performances, the film offers a deeply human portrait of longing, resilience, and the universal pull of freedom.