Baghdad under the American occupation. Iraq is in a power vacuum; anarchy is rife; curfews are in place and suspicion is everywhere. Ahmed, a young man, lives in a squalid hotel room with the young woman to whom he was married through family arrangements. Ahmed longs to get away, and dreams to go to the West. His wife is religious, shy and scared of anything new. Ahmed is lured into joining a terrorist group for money. Because of this, his friends do not want to see him – and his wife does not speak to him anyway. Ahmed’s younger brother tells him about some work that turns out to be a scheme of selling human organs – one of Ahmed’s kidneys is removed in a shabby surgery. He barely survives, only to be blackmailed out of the money he received – by his own brother. What happens to his dream? What will his young wife Fatima do? Can she cope? Or is she leaving him too?