“…Along the way he meets among others his parents and old friends, some of whom went to the mountains to become guerrilla fighters, while others fled the country and went into exile. …”

“…Thirty years later she is still fighting, but now as a wanted leader of a guerrilla-movement - the Kurdish PKK. Why does a woman turn her back on marriage and motherhood to choose a path that leads to a life and death battle instead? …”

“…Shilan however has undergone some changes: she has become a guerrilla soldier in the PKK, living in the remote Zagros Mountains of northern Iraq and Iran, and has dedicated herself to the struggle to re-establish a Kurdish homeland. …”