For hundreds of years, a dynasty of Christian tattoo artists from the Old City of Jerusalem tattooed pilgrims with ancient olive wooden stencils.​​ The sole heir of this 500-year lineage, Wassim Razzouk, discovers an old book that implies not all the stencils belonging to his family were passed down to him. Wassim begins a quest to find them and retrieve as many as he can. His three-year search uncovers a major rift in his family from decades ago, revealing secrets, deceptions, thefts, and even an unsolved murder.