Masterfully tracing the deep roots of the Arab immigrant experience, these interlocking stories follow an Arab family as they flee the Middle East in the 19th century, settle in Montreal in the 20th, and face the collision between tradition and modernity in the 21st. This family includes trailblazing Lebanese freedom fighters, undercover operatives in WWII, and brave Syrian refugees trying to find their place in Canadian society. This line of daring women culminates in AzurÔee. As a young Arab woman living in the wake of her family's histories, AzurÔee contends with all the meanings of her blood - ethnicity and lineage, sexuality and menstruation, pain and death.