A Syrian exile living in Australia returns when his brother is taken into custody by the Assad regime in 2011.

In Syria in 2012 a mother ventures into a war zone to find a gas cylinder so she can prepare a meal for her son. She discovers that in the besieged

After her brother's death in the hands of ISIS, Zilan returns to her natal city, where the people's demonstrations are receiving brutal repression.

FOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.