After 471 days of killing, genocide, and destruction in Gaza, a brief ceasefire allows Firas to return alone to the north. He goes back on one impossible mission: to recover the bodies of his sister Shireen, her husband, and their children, buried under the rubble of their bombed home. When he arrives, he finds a city erased, neighbourhoods flattened, and no heavy machinery left to move concrete or dig. In a phone call with his mother in the south, he tries to describe what he is seeing, while she still insists there must be a way, that neighbours can help. Before leaving, the ruins offer him a solution: a charcoal message remains behind, meant for the day machines return, pointing rescuers to the bodies’ location. Filmed in Gaza’s north in the real aftermath of war, To the North explores the thin line between memory and disappearance, between presence and dust, in a portrait of quiet, unbearable humanity.