"Three Dots" tells the sad story of a single woman named Gul Afrooz living in a village in northwestern Afghanistan along the border of Iran, struggling to raise her three children. Although she is engaged to her lover Firooz, she is forced to marry an old warlord, Khan. He sends her to Iran as a drug courier for an opium smuggling ring. The ring is busted and she is arrested. This is the story of a border-resident woman from the Herat province who smuggles narcotics to Iran in order to feed her children and also to avoid the revenge of a local Khan.