Mohammed växer upp till en ung man men sjukdom, krig och det tuffa vardagslivet i Gaza gör att drömmen om en musikerkarriär känns långt borta. Tills en dag då han bestämmer sig för att satsa allt och på något sätt ta sig till uttagningarna av Idol i Kairo.
After years abroad in Italy, Shadi returns to his native Nazareth. But this is no spectacular homecoming. He's back somewhat begrudgingly to honour his "wajib" (or duty) to hand out invitations to his sister's wedding with his father. The simmering tension between the two — who are often stuck in a car, more often than not in traffic — builds, exposing the sometimes-comic chasms that exist between men who live in different worlds but share an unshakable bond.
Karim, a student from Syria, lives peacefully in Hamburg with Lilly, his pregnant girlfriend. One day, he hears that his brother is imprisoned in the infamous jail in Aleppo. He leaves for Syria to find his brother.