Zahra Khawari, a young girl from a rural family in Daikundi Province, was pursuing a degree in veterinary science at Kabul University when she mysteriously committed suicide inside a student’s dormitory, due to the pressure by her advisor and rejecting her thesis several times. Freshta, Zahra’s younger sister who is 21, is trying to pass the entrance exam to gain admission to the same university so she could complete what Zahra had commenced. However, Freshta encounters significant opposition from her family. Besides the possibility of her experiencing the same fate as Zahra’s, her parents Hawa and Younes are also concerned about the complicated security situation in Kabul. Given what happened to Zahra, Freshta struggles in figuring out how to convince her parents to leave for Kabul. In the meantime, after two years of relentlessly pursuing Zahra’s case in the judicial system, Hawa and Younes have got nothing but only the daunting journeys from the central province of Daikundi to Kabul, also known as the death highway - a dangerous and exhausting 24-hour route, passing through areas fully controlled by the Taliban terrorist group.