After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.
Damascus, Spring 2011. It's the early stages of the civil war. 25-year-old Nahla is torn between her desire for freedom and the hope of leaving the country thanks to her arranged marriage with Samir, a Syrian expatriate in the USA. When he chooses her younger, more docile sister Myriam, Nahla finds refuge at her neighbor's, the mysterious Ms Jiji.
September. Peyo, a 14-year-old adolescent from the French bayou, experienced a difficult summer. One evening, Douglas joins him, leading to a sleepless night that will cause Peyo to delve deeply into himself.
Junie is a 20-year-old woman who works as an apprentice for Xavier, a gruff farmer. As the only girl on the isolated farm, which also hosts seasonal workers, she suffers from a strange illness: every morning, she wakes up in the middle of the countryside, lost and confused.
