In a snowy Kurdish mountain village in eastern Turkey, Berfé, an old woman,
and Jiyan, her young granddaughter, are troubled when the only man of the
household, Temo, the son of one and father of the other, is arrested and taken
into custody by the local gendarmerie. The commanding officer has received
word that the villagers are hiding guns. It is announced that all the men of the
village will be kept in custody until their families submit and hand over the
guns they are hiding. But the problem is that there are no guns, at least to the
knowledge of these two blameless women. Despairing and on their own, Berfé
and Jiyan are faced with a long journey in search of a gun that they can exchange
for their beloved Temo. But how can their innocence and naivety find a way out
in a system that threatens, eventually, to drag them into the sullied world of an
interminable conflict?