Ayesha and her younger siblings find themselves refugees in a bombed out flat in Beirut being cared for by an elderly grandmother.  Their mother was killed in a rocket attack and her father is abroad trying to find work.  

Ayesha spends time caring for her grandmother but when she becomes seriously ill, Ayesha realises that the responsibility rests solely on her shoulders.  She embarks on a dangerous journey across 'no man's land' into enemy territory in order to find a doctor and medicine. 

Elizabeth Laird shows how life continues in the midst of war and how children are the innocent victims caught up in it.