Set in the summer of 2000, Mona (Clara Khoury), a young Druze woman living at Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, is about to marry a successful Syrian actor.

Amal's husband feels put in an awkward position, as tradition demands that the male head of the family control the other members to act in a socially acceptable manner.

Then, after the wedding feast, the bride is escorted to the border where her emigration runs into trouble, as the Israeli government has just decided to stamp the passports of Golan residents bound for Syria as leaving Israel.

So, the UN liaison officer Jeanne goes back and forth until the Israeli official who put the stamp into the passport in the first place finally agrees to erase it with some correction fluid.

[4] Marjorie Baumgarten of The Austin Chronicle criticized the characters for being "difficult to warm up to", but admired The Syrian Bride's "depiction of bureaucratic frustrations and familial woe".

[6] Magazine periodicals such as Variety[7] and Slant was also praising the film with Nick Schager of Slant for example, writing "The inability to communicate becomes, in The Syrian Bride, a problem both political and personal",[8] According to Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times, "It is written, directed and acted with real compassion and sympathy for the humanity of its characters, no matter who they are or on what side of these multiple issues they turn out to be".

She wrote: "The Syrian Bride becomes an overtly political movie, but with all its loose threads and random directions, it feels more like the pilot for an unmade miniseries".