In genre-crossing Foragers, we are introduced to the Palestinian food plants za'atar and 'akkoub. The plants are endangered and forbidden to pick but are popular among Palestinians, who have picked them for generations and refuse to stop. The Israelis are uninterested, but cultivate the plants for Palestinian consumption. At the same time, the ban entails a race between the gleaners and the Israeli authorities, which leads to unsustainable gleaning methods and forces the Palestinians into the role of consumers. The Palestinians also no longer have enough land to run their own, profitable plantations.

The film mixes documentary fiction with real arrests filmed on a mobile phone, archive material from TV, real interviews, and fictional but probable interrogations, as well as impressionistic transitions that reflect the gleaners' experiences in the occupied natural landscape. Several of the "roles" are played by those concerned, like Zeidan, who lives with six dogs in a dilapidated, abandoned village on a slope.