The illiterate but clever farmer, Gezahegn, travels to a small town called "Dibab" in search of his missing son. The people of Dibab believe that his son has left for Addis Abeba in pursuit of a better life. However, Gezahegn finds unsent letters in his son's room regarding the town's residents, indicating that something wrong might have happened to him. Gezahegn starts to take the path of his past, from which he has been running away from, as he pursues his search. Gezahegn will stop at nothing to find his son, even if that means exposing the town's people secrets and destroying their lives.