In the villages of the North, "Canun" is the prevailing law. Canun is a book which defines among many other things except the ways of taking the law into one's hands.
A vendetta starts between two families when someone is injustly killed. Then, the family of the victim has to "take the blood back". It is estimated that in 1996 about 45 000 people have been hiding in houses or in the mountains because their families "own blood", which makes them possible victims. About 6 000 male children live enclosed in houses without going to school for the same reason. In Perlat village the family of Gin DONDA has just lost the son Armand in a long vendetta with the SULEIMANI family.
Now the DONDA men are obliged to kill in revence.
Wife, sister and daughter of the victim.