An intimate documentary about four generations of women (great-grandmother Um Ali, grandmother Nemat, mother Hiam Abbass, and director Lina Soualem, Hiam Abbass's daughter) and their shared legacy of exile.
"Often father and daughter look down on mother together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate"