A priest announces the upcoming marriage of Jean Freiha and Noha Elias, who is 30 years old.

After mass, she is congratulated by Olga, the aunt of her ex-boyfriend, Joseph Maroun, from three years earlier.

His mother, unaware of Noha and Joseph's arrangement, tells him to visit his sister, who has recently had a miscarriage.

Noha doesn't want to wear the dress, believing it to bring bad luck.

She realizes that she doesn’t want to get married or be anybody’s wife, exits the car, and starts walking back by herself.

While resting, she witnesses two masked men dragging a kidnapped person in a sack, through the forest.

They order him to get back in his car and drive in front of them to an undisclosed location, while Noha watches them leave from her hiding place.

Arriving late from having walked home, her mother is upset with her, as that night they are expected at the house of her younger brother, Assaf, for a small engagement party.

Her young nieces, Camelia and Mony, are her bridesmaids, but confide to Noha that they don’t like Jean and are scared of the way he laughs.

While at their house, one of the guests mentions how her own brother had been kidnapped and they had to bargain for his remains  to be return so he could be buried.

The adults proceed to discuss the war and the battles they had participated in, while the young girls listen in secrecy.

A nun, Sister Nawal, working as a nurse in the hospital, tells Layla that a visitor had come on behalf of her to visit Noha, and that his surname was "Maroun".

Layla is surprised, and Sister Nawal reveals that Joseph had stayed for two minutes, and then had broken down.

Assaf, having learned that his mother had been killed, banged his head against the wall exclaiming that it was all his fault.

The film ends with Noha crying, grasping a lace suit inherited from her mother, and Sister Nawal comforting her.

Hachem wrote Noha's role as part of a challenge to meet the requirements for acting by Labaki.