Every week thousands of beef cattle are transported from Europe across the Mediterranean towards the Middle East. Aeode follows a Syrian sailor as he “jumps ship” in a Spanish port, and the loved one he leaves behind.

At a bus stop near Beirut, a veiled Lebanese woman and a migrant Syrian worker get in a tumultuous moment and are arrested. They must argue their innocence in the face of the only witnesses: a bus full of women on their way to Koran school, each with her version of the truth.