Aisha Azzam and her husband founded a grain mill in Jordan's Baqaa refugee camp 35 years ago, helping preserve Palestinian heritage by grinding staples of traditional cuisine. "Food is the most precious part of Palestinian heritage," she says. In Aisha's Story, she recounts a tale of exile, rebuilding family and community and holding onto identity. She proudly distinguishes between Palestinian and Jordanian thyme, and between mansaf and musakhan. The film's structure follows harvesting, grinding, cooking, and feasting---linking memory, longing, and resistance. Aisha's work affirms that grains and herbs are essential to identity. For her, wheat is "the essence of Palestinian life."