After a Syrian man who has lived for a long time in the West learns that he is ill, he resolves to return to his homeland; however, he returns to find that strangers have taken over his home, and due to the chaos of war, his fate becomes intertwined with theirs.

It tells the story of a writer's relationship with his wife under special and complex circumstances, in which their lives intersect with those of a second man living elsewhere, making the relationship a dialectical one of reality and imagination.