During the Battle of Mosul (2016–2017), three police officers from Mosul arrest ISIS drug smugglers. However, they are soon overrun by ISIS and run out of ammo while defending themselves inside a cafe building. One of the police officers, Kawa, a 21 year old Kurd recently enlisted as a police officer, loses his uncle during the gunfight. The Nineveh Swat Team, while going on a mission of their own, find the stranded police officers and save them from the ISIS group. The Nineveh SWAT Team, a police division made up of men native to Mosul who lost family members to ISIS and led by Commander Major Jasem, offers Kawa to join them since he lost his uncle to ISIS and is thus eligible to become part of their team. He accepts, while his partner, the other police officer named Jameel, offers to take Kawa's uncle's body for burial.