Nafas, a journalist, had fled her homeland of Afghanistan during its civil war with the Taliban. She had managed to escape to Canada where she could live a peaceful existence. However, after receiving a suicidal letter from her sister, who has vowed to put an end to her miserable life before the eclipse, Nafas plots to re-enter her turbulent homeland. She seeks to come to the aid of her desperate sister, who had remained behind in the city of Kandahar, after being maimed by a Taliban-planted landmine. Unable to enter Afghanistan through legal channels, the stealthy journalist slips across the Iran-Afghanistan border in a party of refugees and attempts to cross Afghanistan to reach her sister. What Nafas discovers is a ravaged nation where crushing poverty and mullah-decreed oppression reigns supreme; but simultaneously, she witnesses glimpses of humanity and slivers of hope that unexpectedly rise from the ruins of a destroyed nation.