Farida, a strong-willed Egyptian woman in her 50s, is a cleaning lady who works and lives in an upscale Beirut neighbourhood. She is being threatened with eviction from the home she has lived in for most of her life and her husband, tired of being a stay-at-home, insists they move to his family’s village in eastern Syria. With her only son Jad moving to Qatar for work, Farida fears losing the independence she has worked hard for and spending the rest of her life as a traditional wife and daughter-in-law in a village near the Syrian border with Iraq.