[3] A companion piece to his earlier film Last Men in Aleppo,[4] the film profiles Dr. Amani Ballour, a physician in Ghouta who is operating a makeshift hospital nicknamed "the Cave" during the Syrian Civil War.

In an interview, Fayyad said his purpose in making the film was to create documentary evidence that could be used to seek justice for innocent victims of the government crackdown on protesters during the Syrian revolution.

"The film should put people in an uncomfortable position to look through the terrible reality around us," he said.

The site's consensus states that "A hard-hitting documentary with imagery as powerful as its message, The Cave poses heartbreakingly urgent questions -- and leaves them for the viewer to answer.

[9] The Cave won The Cinema for Peace Award for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year for 2019.