In a Sudanese village, the old matriarch, Al-Sit, must be consulted for her blessing before any family wedding. While meeting with a young man who wishes to marry her granddaughter, Al-Sit is deeply troubled by the name of one of his ancestors. But does her traditional knowledge of the past hold any power in a modernising world?
In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, 15-year-old Nafisa has a crush on Babiker, but her parents have arranged her marriage to Nadir, a young Sudanese businessman living abroad. Nafisa’s grandmother Al-Sit, the powerful village matriarch, has her own plans for Nafisa’s future. But can the young girl choose for herself? A compassionate story from Sudan about women—both powerless and powerful—exploring opposing ends of the social chain and how these roles might be changing in a modernizing world.
