Following the death of her mother and the arrest of her father, Dounia has been raised by her paternal grandparents, Darwich and Mouné.
On the way to the Syria-Turkey border, the group picks up another refugee, the musician Djewane, and passes by a temple of the goddess Ishtar.
Dounia uses one seed to summon Ishtar, who grows a temporary forest that allows the refugees to slip past the border patrol agents.
Their raft is caught in a storm, but another seed summons Leila, an ancient princess of Aleppo, who calms the seas.
In Budapest, Dounia, Darwich and Mouné initially plan to follow their friends to Germany, but are separated from the others due to a migrant quota.
A year later, Dounia writes to her father (now making the trip himself,what was released) that they and their friends have settled in well, and that she hopes to be reunited with him soon.