Filmmakers Ibrahim, Suliman, Eltayeb and Manar, close friends for many years, left their motherland in the sixties and seventies to study film abroad and founded the Sudanese Film Group in 1989. After years of distance and exile, they are reunited, hoping to finally make their old dream come true: to bring back cinema to Sudan by reopening the Halfaia Cinema, a dilapidated theater in Khartoum.
An unfortunate misunderstanding leads to another and suddenly Isabel is caught in a web of lies. A web of ghastly lies: She lets her friends believe that she is suffering from cancer. The sudden gush of attention that she experiences makes her long for more. It becomes an addiction she can not resist. Just as she begins to have doubts, she has to realize that she has gone too far for truth.
