Amal is 12 years old and a refugee from Syria. In a port in Turkey, she runs into the refugee smuggler Sam. Amal wants to travel to Greece, where her sisters are in a refugee camp, to join them in meeting their parents in Sweden. Amal, an imaginative, humorous but traumatized young girl and the older and sober Sam, travel together through Europe to try to find freedom... They develop a father-daughter relationship, which becomes both their survival and awakening.