Blood Enemies, Lugging an Olive Branch Adversity makes for unlikely allies in "Zaytoun," an odd-couple road movie set in 1982 as Israel is preparing to invade Lebanon. As the film opens in a Beirut already roiling in civil war, the director, Eran Riklis, injects chaotic street scenes with vigorous energy. When Fahed (Abdallah El Akal), 12, a recently orphaned Palestinian refugee, chances upon a captured Israeli pilot, (Stephen Dorff), he suppresses his hostility to offer the enemy a deal: take him safely to his family's long-abandoned home in Israel, and he will help the pilot escape. Once en route to the southern border, the characters, obliged to fulfill the requirements of a formulaic - and child-friendly - peace allegory, enjoy an adventure that's more kooky than life-threatening. Progressing by cab, donkey, stolen jeep and shank's mare, the pair dodge buried land mines and inept checkpoint guards with identical ease, their growing affection spurred by soft-serve peril and cemented by contrivance. Trapped in a script (by Nader Rizq) that groans with sentiment and symbolism, Mr. Dorff looks a little lost, unconnected to the barren beauty of the Israeli locations that the Danish cinematographer, Dan Laustsen, takes pains to honor. Mr. El Akal, for his part, is burdened mainly by the traumatized olive tree (the title is Arabic for "olive") that his character must lug across country for an emblematic planting in the family garden. His mission is touching and his director well-meaning, but in grabbing for the heart this one-size-fits-all fable sadly ignores the mind.