Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, she is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'. Follow her digressive mind as it ricochets across visions of past and present Beirut. Colorful musings on the arts are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and Aaliya's own volatile past. As she tries to overcome her physical and emotional weakness, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left.