A young woman’s struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.
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The doc begins with the image of a baby and a picture of a an 18-year old girl, that is supposed to be taken 10 years prior to the making of the doc. It turns out that the girl is Waad Al Kateab, the doc’s co-director and mother of the baby named Sama. She is making the doc for her daughter Sama, detailing the experiences she and her husband went through in evacuating the city of Aleppo, Syria, where she grew up.
Over the course of several years, Waad al-Kateab has been filming the uprising in her home city of Aleppo, Syria. Capturing the brutal conflict all around her comes with added personal stakes as she falls in love and becomes pregnant…
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