The Syrian war is the background to the separate stories of three women affected by it in different and painful ways. During the ISIS invasion of Sinjar, Hadia is enslaved and held captive with her children; another young woman escapes and joins the resistance as a fighter; while in Barcelona, Carlota searches for her disappeared son. These stories are told from a female perspective, and writer-Director Anna Bofarull achieves a sense of natural realism by filming in real locations in Iraqi Kurdistan and the poignant fact that one of the actresses was abducted by the Islamic State as a young girl.