So many civilizations and creeds have bloomed, thrived and withered across this region. But they must all have retained the belief that the future, their future, would somehow be better than the past, that tomorrow the sun would glow brighter and the shadows diminish. The Yazidis have a long-established tradition of divination. How does a people survive the painful realization that not only is their history full of oppression, persecution and massacres, but their future may also offer more of the same?