Nineteen-year-old Khaled drives up to a small, isolated farm in 1980s Qatar where his reclusive grandfather, Jedd, lives. Khaled is on family orders to bring Jedd back to the city to see his ailing son. Hoping to broach the topic on a trip to the petrol station, Khaled convinces his grandfather to leave the farm despite the late hour. As they drive along a single-lane road through the desert, a mundane conversation soon exposes a longstanding and sensitive conflict in the family. As the conflict reaches its climax, they encounter a strange and eerie presence in the desert that wants to teach them both a lesson. When Khaled is faced with a decision and defies his grandfather, he ends up paying the ultimate price.