During the Islamic Revolotion in Iran, Iranian Kurdish poet Sahel Farzan and his wife Mina are arrested and imprisoned, an imprisonment that only Mina survives, or so she believes. But while Mina, released after 5 years, struggles to make a new life for herself and her children in Istanbul, Sahel is in fact alive. When he is finally released 25 years later, he emerges to find that everyone he knew believes him dead, an in returning to his family he weill have to re-examine the last 30 years and perhaps face some hard truths about himself...