Alaa Najem

A contract killer and a poor family are squatting in the same residence in Baghdad courtesy of their boss, who is one of the political overlords in Iraq. The killer is caught in a moral downhill spiral with his ruthlessness increasing with every crime he commits. Meanwhile, the mother and children of the family he is living with are trapped by their conditions but refuse to give in to them. The characters seem like fragmented reflections of Iraq as it negotiates its traumas of wars and corruption, and a very uncertain future.

The events of the film take place in the year 2008, during a period of security instability that gradually tends towards relative stability. The story highlights the struggle of Iraqi women and their determination to organize their family lives amid exceptional circumstances that placed all Iraqis under threat.