During the Armenian Genocide of 1915, a caravan of Armenians being forcibly deported along the banks of the Euphrates becomes, through the eyes of fifteen-year-old Khoren, a testament to a lost world and human dignity. Beside him on this road of hunger, violence, and death is Astghik, a girl whose inner strength inspires hope even amid despair. The scene at the ancient bridge over the Euphrates reveals the power of song as a voice of compassion and spiritual resistance. Even decades later, the memory never leaves the narrator.