Thirteen-year-old Rodi is just a year old when his Yazidi family is forced to flee their home in the Kurdish mountains. Since Rodi's father has been missing ever since, he and his mother find refuge with Rodi's tyrannical uncle, who lives in a Yazidi-Kurdish village in Turkey. There, the boy not only learns about the strict rules of his religion in all their contradictions but also experiences the brutal oppression of the Yazidis in the midst of the Islamic world. However, his friendship with the old Yazidi storyteller Hazal gives Rodi strength and inspires him to repeatedly rebel against the strict rules of the elders. When the village is eventually threatened by a long drought, a mysterious old man appears out of nowhere. Is he one of the legendary Yazidi miracle healers? And what does he have to do with the mythical story of Gil?.