At a party, Maryam and Jibril exchange glances. Years later, Maryam happens to meet the same young man again when she is asked to deliver a parcel to someone in prison. The recipient is none other than Jibril, who is serving a sentence of several years.

Love can come knocking on one’s door in the most unexpected way, like a daydream seeping into real life. In this impossible romance between an Arab single mother living in Berlin and a prison inmate, their tantalizing projections and intense yearning blur the physical distance, if only temporarily.