In a wind-scoured refugee camp on the edge of the Jordanian desert, Yasmeen counts her world in absences?her parents, grandparents, her home. At thirteen, with her seven-year-old brother Jaafar, she crosses Syria in search of a refugee camp and her only remaining relatives. Arriving near death and without news of her aunt and uncle, their future is uncertain. Until they meet Leah, a young aid worker adrift from her own unfinished past, who makes a home for them.

When armed men arrive in the night and carry Leah and Yasmeen across an unseen border, the fragile order of the camp gives way to a harsher captivity. In the silence between interrogations and long stretches of waiting, Leah and Yasmeen form a quiet, stubborn connection?part refuge, part reckoning.

Their shared existence narrows to small acts: a story remembered, a hand held in the dark, and Leah's refusal to let them forget who they were before. What unfolds is a struggle for survival, and a fragile, defiant persistence of care in a place designed to extinguish it.