A young widow pretends to be pregnant with a son in order to save her daughter and home from a relative exploiting Jordan's patriarchal inheritance laws.
Nawal and her husband Ahmad try to get a second baby when Ahmad suddenly dies. From then on Nawal fights a legal battle with her brother-in-law Rifqi. According to Jordan law the family of the husband gets a significant part of the inheritance if the wife did not produce a son. Desperate to keep her house and the life with her daughter Nawal has to think of a plan. Inspired by real events.