Cry of the Sky is loosely about events that led to the collapse of the first Kurdish revolution of 1961 and the chaotic recovery of the resistance movement during the second half of the 1970s. The storyline takes its point of departure from the current situation in the Kurdistan region with the ongoing war between the Peshmerga and a new foe, the Islamic State (ISIS/Daesh).

Warya is a bookseller in the city who cannot arrange a wedding party for his fiancé due to his poverty situation. One day his friend reads him a text of the country's constitution, which changes his life.