Damascus today: Bombs are falling. Ten-year-old Salima is sitting in the shelter with her grandparents. There, she asks her grandfather to read from his old diary, and thus they – along with the listeners – are transported to the Syrian capital before the war. Alongside the poverty and the dangers of a surveillance apparatus, there are many beautiful, poetic, and funny stories to tell about the city where people of many nationalities and religions live together peacefully.