War feature shot in the Kurdistan of Syria, in the middle of the armed conflict. The film tells the real story of resistance of a group of young people who faced the army to de- fend their neighbourhood and it is written based on the diaries of those who died and the testimony of the survivors, who also act in the film. The protagonist is Zilan, a young woman who returns to her hometown looking for the me- mory of her dead brother, to find herself involved in a violent fight against the police and the army. The film explores universal concepts such as hope, friendship, sacrifice and loss in the struggle for free- dom of a group of young people.