German crew in Kurdistan encounters ritual, translator nannies for haunted 7-year-old Melek whose father works for shady group, characters caught in web of conspiracy, paranoia, generational trauma linked to child's plight.

A German film team is shooting a documentary in northeastern Turkey. In a remote Kurdish village, they witness an elderly woman performing a recurring ritual to keep the memory of her missing son alive. The Kurdish translator of the German crew is also the nanny of Melek, a 7-year-old Turkish girl.