In Jeddah during the economically transformative year of 1973, a rabid neighbourhood dog catalyses the implosion of a disintegrating family. Fifty-year-old Adel is perpetually enraged by The Dog’s piercing barking, but more significantly, he fails to tame his temper in order to keep his family together. His 18-year-old daughter Khadija is gradually going deaf, her only source of sensory pleasure the fainy howling of The Dog, while his eight-year-old son Faisal is timid and naive, unfortunately finding himself stuck smack in the middle of a looming family war. When a bitter family argument erupts out of bottled-up frustration, Adel bargains to kill two birds with one stone: he will toughen up his crybaby of a son by teaching him how to fire a gun in order to kill The Dog. Will Faisal choose to silence his father’s wrath, or to preserve his sister’s only source of joy?