Roaming the streets of Beirut searching for metal objects to be recycled, Ahmed, a Syrian refugee with hundreds of shrapnel wounds in his body, thought he'd find love with Mehdia, an Ethiopian domestic. But in this city, such a story seems almost impossible. Mehdia is having a hard time. Old Ibrahim, her employer who she looks after, is going insane. His wife, Leila, can no longer cope and daily life in the house becomes a ridiculously absurd dialogue of the deaf. And when Leila's son, Fadi, arrives to visit his parents, things get even worse. Mehdia decides to run away with Ahmed, and so begins an adventure that will take Ahmed and Mehdia to the Eastern border where Ahmed's family has taken refuge. But meanwhile, Ahmed's right arm slowly turns black, hard and metallic.