And the answer, in 101 Kurdish subtitles, was always: Em guhdar dikin. (We are listening.)

She worked until dawn. By sunrise, she had subtitled the first ten minutes of the documentary. She uploaded it to a public folder and named it: .

It didn’t fit perfectly—the documentary was about politics, the subtitles were for a film about a poet. But for five glorious minutes, the timing matched. A Kurdish elder on screen said, “Em ê vegere,” and the subtitle read: “We will return.”