August 15, 2021, Kabul falls to the Taliban. An Afghan family must choose to leave or stay, while the French embassy remains open, Giovanni, an Italian diplomat, faces the flight of his ambassador, and Vera, a member of the German secret service, hopes to return to Kabul to save an Afghan general she once knew.

Gilles decides to negotiate with the Taliban to organize the evacuation of his refugees by bus. While Giovanni tries to get his first Afghan refugees off the ground, Vera, guided by one of General Hassan's soldiers, arrives at a Taliban camp where the general is believed to be imprisoned. At the same time, Amina flees the hospital with little Nooria, while her brother, Fazal, under American orders, infiltrates an Islamic State cell preparing an attack.