Northern Iraq 2003. Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed a 12-year-old boy begrudgingly follows in the shadow of his grandmother. On hearing news that prisoners of war have been found alive in the South she is determined to discover the fate of her missing son Ahmed's father who never returned from the Gulf war. From the mountains of Kurdistan to the sands of Babylon they hitch rides from strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims on all too similar journeys. Struggling to understand his grandmother's search Ahmed follows in the forgotten footsteps... of a father he never knew. This journey will lead the boy to come of age. [show more]
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Road movie drama set in battered post-war Iraq. A few weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003, 12-year-old Ahmed (Yassir Talib) and his grandmother (Shazada Hussein) set out across Iraq in an attempt to find out what happened to Ahmed's father, Hussein (Bashir Al-Majed), who failed to return from the first Gulf War back in 1991.
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