The filmmaker Negin Ahmadi takes the radical decision to accompany an all-female militia fighting in Syrian Kurdistan. Like many of the women she portrays there – for whom joining the fight against ISIS was also a way to escape social restraints – Negin tries to discover what makes life worth living. Negin’s filming process matures into a self-exploring diary. Her recordings alternate between the brutality of combat and intimate moments between the women soldiers, combing each other’s hair or exposing their wounded bodies. A storytelling that subverts the grand narratives of war. A composition of personal experiences weaved into political images, Darvazeye royaha asks questions about the role of women in battle and the power of cinematic images to illuminate social issues.