Synopsis

This road movie follows the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and photographer Ziad Homsi as they travel together on an arduous, dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves forced to abandon their home country for a temporary exile in Turkey.

While Yassin was detained in 1980 at the age of twenty, and remained imprisoned for 16 years, he is also one of the few intellectuals who participated clandestinely in the Syrian uprising since its earliest days in 2011. However, by mid-2013, Yassin has to leave Damascus together with his wife Samira for the liberated city of Douma in the Eastern Ghouta, where he meets the young filmmaker Ziad Homsi.