​Zahraa (30) is an actress based in Baghdad. Each day she encounters news about the killing of women in her city. It tortures her in her wake and slumber. She goes back to the house where she was born and raised. It is her maternal aunt Hayat’s (65) home. She is the woman whose hands Zahraa was born into. Hayat is a certified midwife who enjoys nothing other than smoking cigarettes while watching horror films and hearing children cry upon their birth.

Zahraa confronts her aunt about a little girl, Noor, who went missing from their house during Zahraa’s childhood. She believes her aunt was involved. She had seen that girl on national TV talking about how her family threw her out on the street and it has haunted her ever since. Zahraa goes on a journey to search for Noor alongside her friend and mentor Hanaa Edwar (74), a pioneer human rights activist.

Between confronting family history and searching for Noor, Zahraa comes up against her nightmares and the daily stories of women being killed by their families in different ways in Baghdad.

Will the excuses for why girls are killed be stopped in Baghdad? Will the nightmares stop if the missing girl Noor is found?