A recently orphaned young Kurdish-French woman travels to Iraqi Kurdistan to find her mother's village| likely destroyed during the Anfal genocide. On her journeyshe meets two American film students who are traveling to remote villages screening Charlie Chaplin films. They decide to help her search| an undertaking that bringsthem to the war-weary Mount Qandil| dubbed by the locals the Kurdish Bermuda Triangle| along the Iraqi-Turkish-Iranian borders.