In the mountains above Gap, in the French Alps, Hana is learning the trade of a shepherdess, spending the summer season alone with a flock of several hundred sheep. Far from the hustle and bustle of the world, she counts, herds, treats and watches over her animals, and keeps her mother’s anxious calls, and the news of war in her native Lebanon, at arm’s length. But when the shepherdess sent to train her leaves, and an accident strikes the flock, the isolation begins to weigh on her. Then Lisa arrives, sent up the mountain to help with the animals.

Slowly, the two women find their rhythm, sharing coffee, chores and stories, and Lisa’s easy warmth draws Hana out of her solitude and invites her to reconnect with her own story: a childhood interrupted by war, and a country she still feels calling her. Meanwhile, a body is found near a dam down the valley, and young men are crossing the mountain on foot from Italy, hoping to reach France unseen. Blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, Naël Khleifi and Lisa Debauche’s film reveals the customs and the people who cross these mountains, in a tender meditation on exile, freedom and belonging.