The Ilisu Dam on Turkey's Tigris River was built as a prestige project for President Erdoğan, promising modernization and power generation. Its reservoir also swallowed Hasankeyf, a town with 12,000 years of settlement history and cave dwellings carved into cliffs above the river. The film follows the town's last residents as the water rises in 2020, including shepherd Rengin, who loses her flock because animal husbandry is banned in the government-built housing she's relocated to, and Burak, a barber struggling to rebuild his trade in the new concrete developments. Hundreds of villages across this predominantly Kurdish region were flooded before Hasankeyf, and the film treats the dam as both an engineering feat and a political act, one that erased archaeological sites that could never be excavated or moved. Interviews with displaced residents carry the emotional weight, while footage of the drowned cliffs and abandoned houses shows what modernization cost a community that had lived in the same caves for millennia.