Born in 1960 near Lake Tiberias in Palestine, Hiam Abbass decides to leave her country and her family to pursue an acting career in Europe. Her talent will take her further, even to Hollywood alongside Steven Spielberg and Jim Jarmusch. Thirty years after this departure, her daughter Lina, now a filmmaker, takes up the camera and goes back in time to understand her mother's trajectory and that of the other women in her family. There is Um Ali, her great-grandmother, expelled from Palestine in 1948 and forever separated from her eldest daughter Hosnieh. Then there is Nemat, her grandmother, who raised ten children while pursuing her career as a teacher. Guided by her mother, the filmmaker interweaves present-day images with family archives, exploring a history of women who are both resistant and resilient.