In Serekaniye, a Syrian town on the Turkish border, Kurdish women take up arms against ISIS rather than wait to become its victims. The film follows female fighters of the YPJ, the all-women militia formed alongside the Kurdish YPG, as they train, hold checkpoints, and go into combat in a war where captured women have faced slavery and worse. Interviews with fighters and commanders lay out why they joined, what they have already lost, and what they believe is at stake if the town falls. Footage moves between the front lines and the domestic spaces behind them, showing women managing households and children in the same breath as they describe firefights. The documentary treats the militia's ideology, built on gender equality as a deliberate rebuke to ISIS's treatment of women, as central to understanding why these fighters are effective and why ISIS fighters reportedly fear facing them. It is a ground-level portrait of a war most coverage renders only in statistics.