There are words we do not know, but whose meanings we can sense, as if they have always lived within us. Sometimes they long to be spoken. When her grandmother, a strong-willed woman who always had an inappropriate joke at the ready, passes away, Mona decides to fly to Iran one last time. Together with her mother, she embarks on a journey to the deceptive homeland. The return flight to her life in Cologne is already booked. But then her long-term Iranian lover, Ramin, convinces her to take a farewell trip to Bam, the city that was completely destroyed by an earthquake five years earlier. The journey becomes a confrontation for Mona with her own identity and her origins, about which so much remains uncertain.