Credits: screenplay: Jennifer Norridge, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Mithal Ghazi; director of photography: Mohamed Al-Dardji, Duraid Munajim; editor: Pascale Chavance, Mohamed Jbara; music: Kad Achouri; producer: Isabelle Stead, Atia Al-Daradji, Mohamed Al-Daradji, Dimitri de Clercq; production company: Human Film, Iraq Al-Rafidain, CRM-114;

Country: Iraq, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates

Year: 2010

Running time: 93

Colour: Colour

Format: 35 mm

Northern Iraq, 2003. Two weeks after the fall of Saddam Hussein. AHMED a 12-year-old Kurdish 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 with strangers and cross paths with fellow pilgrims on all too similar journeys. Struggling to understand his grandmotherís search, Ahmed follows in the forgotten footsteps of a father he never knew. This journey will lead the boy to come of age.