Onala, a young Armenian girl who survived the genocide, fled to the United States, where she published a book based on her firsthand account. Her story was later adapted into a Hollywood film, in which she herself reenacted the tragedy. At the age of fourteen, she witnessed the destruction of her family and home, forcibly expelled by Ottoman soldiers amid scenes of plunder, starvation, rape, and slaughter. Clinging to the hope of dawn, she narrowly escaped death, feeling a duty to speak the truth about the extermination. The silent film starring her caused a tremendous response upon its release. Though the original copies were once lost, some were later recovered. Inna Sahakyan, born in Armenia, uses animation to combine these rediscovered fragments with interviews of Onala before her death, retelling the story of her journey through the valley of the shadow of death and the trauma she carried—a reminder to the world never to forget the atrocities of genocide.