[1] The loss at war, being away from her son, and still managing to remain active and standing tall, helping and taking risks in critical areas, Umm Saad was narrating and not just having a regular conversation with Kanafani; her feelings of despair towards the constant bad news heard through the radio, or following up on her son, Saad, who went with the Fedayeen, but was arrested and tortured, expressing how Palestinian women experience the pain of loss, distance, and deprivation in camps.

Broken down in tears at some point through the storyline, Umm Saad wishes she lives somewhere safe and clean and not suffer through the coldness of camps.

The story ends when Saad informs the family that his friend, Laith, was arrested, making them deal with a betrayer who works with Israelis in order to set him free.

[5] Odette David[5] points out to physical features of Umm Saad associated with elements of nature such as wood, trees, soil, and water that make her character be "Mother-Earth".

[5] However, director of Al Rawat Foundation, Fayha Abdulhadi, considered Umm Saad's character to be epic, and a model for the socialist realism books.