People lie to themselves all the time; they tell themselves they'll be okay or that their life isn't falling apart or that they'll make it out of this alive. They lie while the truth, a nasty, hungry, drooling maw, smiles in their face.
Amna had been leading a very normal life; she is a student, aiming to be a doctor. But when violence between opposing sects erupts in her country, everything in her life starts falling apart. She is not able to make sense of why all of this was happening to us.