Traumatized into muteness after a long, devastating trip from war-torn Syria to the UK, a young woman believes that she wants to sink deeper into isolation. Gradually, as the boundaries of her world expand, and as an anti-Muslim hate crime shatters the members of a nearby mosque, she has to make a choice: Will she remain a voiceless observer, or become an active participant in her own life and in a community that, despite her best efforts, is quickly becoming her own?