Dr. Mehdi is a hard working idealist whose university career was interrupted when his application for postgraduate study was refused due to his dead father's communist affiliations. Conscripted into the Iraqi army and exiled to work at the institution despite his abilities, Dr. Mehdi longs for a free Iraq where humanity is cherished and not brutalised by hatred and fear and where the human quest for truth and goodness will triumph over the brutality he witnesses. But will Medhi's spirit survive the devastation and his father's political past…