Salama Kassab was studying as a pharmacy student when revolution broke out in Syria, and now she volunteers at a hospital in Homs, tending to the wounded that come in each day. She is desperate to get out of her beloved country before her sister-in-law, Layla, gives birth, but she is consumed by fear. Salama is so traumatized that her fear has manifested into a physical embodiment in the form of her imagined companion, Khawf, who haunts her every move. Khawf pressures her to leave, but just as she is deciding to leave, she meets Kenan, and everything changes.