In a chic enclave of Chelsea, Zaleekhah arrives at her Uncle Malek’s home, feel­ing a sense of estrange­ment. As she enters, the famil­iar ele­ments of the gar­den evoke nos­tal­gia, yet simul­ta­ne­ous­ly high­light her dis­con­nec­tion. She hands over a book, “Nin­eveh and Its Remains,” to Kareem, the door­man, before mak­ing her way upstairs past her closed child­hood bed­room door.

Zaleekhah enters Uncle Malek’s study, a room filled with exquis­ite decor and an ambiance of warmth. She peeks out the win­dow to see her Uncle and Aunt with Lily, their grand­daugh­ter, engag­ing ten­der­ly with each oth­er, which evokes mixed emo­tions in her. Intend­ing to leave the book on the cof­fee table but drawn to an old draw­er, she dis­cov­ers a con­cern­ing pho­to­graph of a young girl along­side unset­tling details about her con­di­tion. The image strikes a chord of alarm with­in her, lead­ing her to take it with her when she abrupt­ly leaves, feel­ing con­flict­ed and anx­ious.

Down­stairs, Kareem notices her hur­ried exit, men­tion­ing that Uncle Malek was informed of her vis­it and would be join­ing her short­ly. Despite his insis­tence, Zaleekhah asserts the neces­si­ty of her depar­ture. Uncle Malek arrives short­ly there­after at a tat­too shop search­ing for a girl, a sce­nario that under­scores his dis­tress and des­per­a­tion regard­ing Lily’s health. When Zaleekhah con­fronts him, he reveals the grav­i­ty of the sit­u­a­tion: Lily is crit­i­cal­ly ill, and time is run­ning out for a suit­able organ donor.

Uncle Malek explains that he’s found a match with­in a group of Yazi­di girls in dire cir­cum­stances, indi­cat­ing that they are often over­looked and neglect­ed. He insists that unbe­knownst to most, this arrange­ment could ulti­mate­ly ben­e­fit all involved, espe­cial­ly the girl, who would be res­cued from a life of abuse. How­ev­er, Zaleekhah is hor­ri­fied, real­iz­ing his propo­si­tion amounts to organ har­vest­ing cloaked in pater­nal­is­tic ratio­nale.

Their argu­ment esca­lates as she grap­ples with the moral­i­ty of his plans and the impli­ca­tions it holds for the girl and her fam­i­ly. Uncle Malek attempts to jus­ti­fy the “arrange­ment,” but Zaleekhah remains res­olute in her con­dem­na­tion of the ethics behind it. Their famil­ial bond, now strained by the rev­e­la­tion of his inten­tions, forces Zaleekhah to reck­on with her uncle’s choic­es and the deep­er, dark­er nar­ra­tive they encap­su­late sur­round­ing their family’s dynam­ics and val­ues.