Therese the mayors wife in a Lebanese village joyfully prepares for an overnight visit of her daughters suitor and his parents She excitedly shares the happy news of the engagement with pictures of her beloved brother who was killed by a Syrian bomb 20 years ago and is still bizarrely present in every corner of her house Only when the longawaited guests are at her doorstep she discovers they are Syrian this engagement will only happen over Thereses dead body