Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobanê, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope that kept the whole world on tenterhooks.
Though many dead bodies are shown, the camera does not linger on their injuries. There is a lot of blood, but the movie puts emphasis on the reactions of the people who find these bodies.
Some of the YPG members discuss their childhood experiences of Eid, wherein they mention that they would go door to door to collect candy. One of these members is referred to as a "fatty" and the story revolves around how his friends would go to gather the candy and share it with him, because he couldn't climb the stairs.
A Daeshi is strangled from behind before he kills a YPG member, though you do not see much but the initial stranglehold and his feet twitching at the end, because it is hidden in darkness.