Stranded in her abandoned war-torn Aleppo family home during the Syrian war, fearing for her dear friend and mentor Turkish human rights activist Osman Kavala facing life in prison, Sona Tatoyan, a first generation Syrian-Armenian-American film and theatre artist discovers a trunk full of her great-great-grandfather’s handmade Karagöz shadow puppets, salvaged a century earlier from the Armenian Genocide.

These puppets hold their own stories – bawdy, hilarious, haunting – pulling her through a dizzying psychedelic, intergenerational landscape. With the help of master storyteller Scherazad, Sona alchemizes a radiant truth with universal implications: stories, when reimagined, possess the power to transmute trauma to healing.