"Our bodies and our blood will feed the land
Our children's children
Our milk will be red
From Our death will spring life
We have faith
A new day is dawning
It will be a new era of Women, Life, Liberty"
August of 2014, Iraqi Kurdistan. The ISIL (ISIS) invaders invaded Mount Sinjar. This would follow with another genocide in Kurdistan after the horrific Anfal back in late 80s by Saddam's forces. As the Daesh forces carried out the genocide, some 5000 Yazidis were killed, around 500,000 fled and thousands of women and girls were captured and forced into sexual slavery. This is a story of some handful of the Yazidi women fighters who stood upright and fought the ISIS forces. Powerful story but storytelling is somewhat drab with some disconnect and hackneyed segments.. However, gritty locations (Georgia) and impressive production design and compelling and vehement performance by Farahani redress the movie and push it higher to a great watch category.