Kidnapped from her village in North Iraq by ISIS, just a few months after marrying Mohammed, a 25- year-old Yazidi woman named Ellan is released from captivity and returns home with a newborn child from the ISIS father.

Ellan’s family and friends are waiting outside, beating drums and playing music celebrating her and other women safe return, but her husband cannot accept the ISIS child who is a shame to the family. He orders her to kill him before people find out.

In her room, with her baby in her arms, Ellan is pushed to take life of her own child. She makes several attempts but the mother in her, the instincts and feelings that she cannot betray, destine her to find a different way out from the plight that was awaiting her.

About the filmmaker:

Rami is an Iraqi film director, writer, art director and cinematographer. He started his way in arts and filmmaking taking several workshops in journalism, performing arts, producing, writing, film editing, photography and film directing. He then studied film at the Institute of Fine Arts, University of Baghdad. In 2015, he joined Iraqi Independent Film Center, and since then, he has worked as an art director, cinematographer, assistant director and writer on 5 feature-length and more than 20 short films, documentary and narrative. Many of these films were presented and received awards at the prestigious international film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Toronto, Berlin, Malmo, Busan, Cairo, and others. In 2016, Rami wrote and directed his first short fiction film The Camp Queen.