The sun is pounding; winds are blowing clouds of sand. Jalila, a 42-year-old Bedouin woman is doing her best to pretend she's joyous; today she's hosting her husband's second marriage to a bride who is 20 years younger than her. Layla, her 18-year-old daughter, is pretending too, but for a very different reason - her secretive forbidden liaison with a strange man was just unveiled.The two will try to cope with the new reality they were thrown into, each in her own individual way. But soon enough, they'll have to understand that if they wish to survive - they must join forces.