Victim of a devastating bombing, a young Syrian woman agrees to marry a powerful sheikh in exchange for the money needed to save her agonizing brother. But everything changes when the boy dies and the girl must flee with her family to start a new life. Enraged, the sheikh sends his right-hand man after the bride and they fall for each other, living a forbidden love. Their relationship is put to the test when the sheikh's daughter decides to take vengeance on the couple after her father's mysterious death. From Emmy Award winners Thelma Guedes and Duca Rachid, Orphans of a Nation is a story of empathy and love.