Under Iranian law, a child born outside marriage can be left with no papers, no school, no medical care, and no legal existence. Director Niloufar Taghizadeh follows Leyla, a mother she has known since her school days, and Leyla's daughter Nila as they try to force a bureaucracy built on an unacknowledged loophole to recognize the girl's identity. Over nearly three years, the camera goes with them into government offices and, at times undercover, into meetings with the officials who control Nila's fate. Between the paperwork and the waiting rooms, the film shows the two of them painting, singing, and inventing elaborate daydreams about travel and luxury, a coping mechanism the film treats as its own kind of evidence. Taghizadeh doesn't limit the story to one family; she uses Leyla and Nila's case to point at how many undocumented children in Iran live the same way, erased by a legal technicality rather than any crime, fighting for the basic right to exist on paper.