Every year, millions of people from around the world leave their homes to visit, pray and connect at the burial sites of Prophets and their successors, the Imams, in Iraq and Iran. This journey is known as ziyarah. This first-person, experimental travelogue takes place in two parallel worlds: on land at the shrines of the Prophet Muhammad’s family, including his grandson Husayn who was infamously murdered by the caliph Yazid; and in the inner world of a pilgrim as she questions her spiritual progress and readiness for the visit.
