Faarah lives a hard life. Thinking about the hardships her mother had been daily facing her whole life and still faces to keep her daughter's stomach full makes her as forlorn as one can be. She is seventeen but her mother, Leila, refuses to let her beloved daughter work. They live in harsh environment but that may not last long for Faarah if her mother does what she has been thinking. She only wants Faarah's life to be a better one than the one she has been living. 'La'l meri' means 'My red diamond'.