Suzanne Khardalian grew up watching her grandmother sit silent and withdrawn, with strange blue tattoos marking her chin and hands, and no one in the family would explain them. This film follows Khardalian as she tracks down the story behind those marks, which turn out to be tribal tattoos forced onto Armenian women and girls during the 1915 genocide, when Ottoman authorities drove Armenians from their homes into the deserts of Syria and Iraq. Survivors were often taken into Arab or Kurdish households and tattooed as a sign of ownership, a practice the film traces through interviews with historians and relatives who finally break decades of family silence. Khardalian travels to Armenia, Lebanon, Syria, and back to her own family's adopted home in Sweden, piecing together how her grandmother ended up marked and what happened to the women who did not survive the marches. The film treats the tattoos as physical evidence of an atrocity that Turkey still disputes, and it stays close to one family's fragments rather than the wider political argument.