The film starts by showing Nazareth's life as a blacksmith in the city of Mardin, where he used to live with his family.

One night, Ottoman soldiers came to his door and took him to work for the army at a road construction, which was basically in the middle of an uninhabited area.

At one point an Ottoman officer came to their camp and asked them if they would accept to convert to Islam and being set free.

The soap maker provided refuge to not only Nazareth but also many Armenians, which can also be interpreted as a metaphor: bystanders to the Genocide cleansing their guilt by helping the surviving victims.

It is in Aleppo that Nazareth learned that his daughters might still be alive and set out to find them first in Lebanon, then in Cuba and finally in Ruso, North Dakota, United States.