Simple as Water 2021 The film follows Yasmin, a mother of four living in a tent in the port of Athens Samra, a widow on the Turkey Syria border grappling with the decision to leave her children in an orphanage in hopes of giving them a better life 22 year old Omar, who has taken on the role of a parent for his younger brother Abed in Pennsylvania Diaa, who has remained in Syria while tirelessly searching for her disappeared son and Safwan, Yasmins husband, who lives in temporary housing in Germany and yearns to be reunited with his children