Mahmood and his wife, Fereiba, live a happy middle-class life until their country is engulfed in war and the Taliban rise to power. Mahmood becomes a target of the new fundamentalist regime and is murdered. Forced to flee Kabul with her three children, Fereiba has one hope to survive: she must find a way to cross Europe and reach her sister's family in England. Fereiba manages to smuggle them as far as Greece. But their fate takes a frightening turn when her teenage son, Saleem, becomes separated from the rest of the family. Fereiba and Saleem struggle to reunite, and ultimately find a place where they can begin to reconstruct their lives.