Where are the angels? In our imaginations? All around us? In the desert, a victorious rebel army advances on a makeshift camp overcrowded with refugee families. The aid workers know there's going to be a massacre. But then one young woman decides that she cannot accept death. Closer to home, an old man cries out to Heaven for certainty. A sick child meets an invisible friend. A young doctor faces his first defeat. And out there in the darkness, under an empty sky, a young man prepares to take a dangerous road. Who is that, standing beside him?