The "need is generous" without warning from the lives of her three sons – the eldest son Ahmed along with his younger sister Jalal and the middle sister Dalal – and the sons begin an intense search journey everywhere the mother is likely to be present. The search journey leads them to visit all their acquaintances in the different governorates of Egypt (with their cultural and visual diversity).. The journey of children searching for their mother is accompanied by their own journey within themselves and their discovery of the true meaning of captive bonding.