When As’ad, a 12-year-old rubbish picker, adopts an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, finding himself caught in the crossfire between abusive forces of commercialism and fundamentalism in a world where defenders of humanism have lost their power. He embraces the courage it takes to not just survive, but live.

汉娜独自生活在遥远的英格兰北部诺福克海岸，这里的世界，50年内都没有什么变化...沼泽地、沙丘、松树林、绵长的海滩，还有孤独的房屋，都在开阔的天空之下。汉娜和他已故的丈夫在度过浪漫而诗意的大半生后，定居于此。她一个人在此享受着诗歌、花园，还有一位年轻英俊的朋友，乔。