Leyla, a young woman from Germany, will be Turkey’s youngest mayor at the age of 26 – in Cizre, a Kurdish stronghold on the Syrian-Iraqi border, from which she had to flee over 20 years ago because her father was shot by the Turkish military in a battle. Her goal is to beautify the city destroyed by the civil war. But then everything turns out differently. The Turkish parliamentary elections are coming up and that situation is radically coming to a head. Her childhood memories catch up with her in the process.