The game follows Dujanah, a Muslim woman in a fictional country under the occupation of foreign powers in a stylized magic realist–style world as she tries to find out what happened to her husband and daughter.

The player controls Dujanah, a Muslim woman that lives inside of a fictional country in a magic realist styled world that is under the occupation of foreign powers.

[9][10] In order to familiarize himself with a setting in an unnamed Muslim country, the Scottish King-Spooner said that he "spent time researching and talking with people relevant to the subject" and was determined to avoid the "ideological and symbolic ‘otherness’ that many media decisions exacerbate.

When running the Kickstarter campaign and based on his previous experience with Beeswing, King-Spooner decided to give more digital rewards to backers versus physical ones which were harder to fulfill.

"[12] Kotaku's Leah Williams called the game "an extremely interesting piece of art" and noted that years after initially playing it, she "still [thinks] about it regularly.

[5] Kotaku's Heather Alexandra in a very positive review felt that the game, despite its focus on death, "reminded that life is still full of interesting people to meet and places to see.