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Film Synopsis

Sitti, a devout, iron-willed grandmother in her late seventies, sets out from her remote mountain village in Taif, Saudi Arabia, with her granddaughters Sarah and Janna to perform Hajj as a family for the first time. But their sacred journey quickly unravels.

Amid the overwhelming crush of pilgrims entering Mecca, Sarah vanishes. When the Hajj group’s stern organizer gives Sitti 48 hours to find Sarah before alerting their controlling father, Sitti is forced to make a fateful decision: defy the rules and follow her instincts for a search that will lead her and Janna through the backstreets of Mecca to Jeddah and on a sweeping journey beyond. As echoes of the past collide with the urgency of the present, grandmother and granddaughter must confront generations of silence, reclaim agency in a patriarchal world, and race against time to reunite their family before Sarah disappears for good.

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