In the winter of 1988, in the depths of the Iraq/Iran war, the border town of Halabja was attacked by chemical weapons with all its people and their different stories.
A Kurdish girl returns to Kurdistan from the United States. On this trip she goes to a village to the house of a friend of his father. Because of the different cultures of the United States and Kurdistan, the girl causes problems for the family.
It's 2004, and the news that Saddam Hussein has died sends shock waves through the Middle East. Shaho is the son of an elderly man of Iranian Kurdish heritage; the old man's health is failing him after suffering a stroke, and he's convinced he doesn't have long to live. Shaho, his father, and their family have been living in an Iraqi refugee camp for a while, but with the passing of Saddam, Shaho believes the time is right for them to return to Iran, where father can spend his last days in the land of his birth. However, as Shaho is making plans for the trip back to Iran, his cousin Sheelan visits the family for the first time in twenty years; her parents fled to Sweden when she was a child, where she's now a physician, and she wants her dying uncle to join her there where he'll be safe and well cared for.
Ayam Akram, also known as Shamo, is a Kurdish comedian, who has appeared in several films, theater, and television productions. Ayam began his career in the 1980s and graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts in Mosul in 1988. In 2002, he starred in the series Mami Alan directed by Nasser Hassan.
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