Amid the battle to liberate Mosul, Wissam, a thirty-year-old Iraqi soldier, hears the cries of an infant. Ignoring the danger, he insists on rescuing the child. With fellow soldier Bareq at his side, he pushes forward until a sniper’s bullet strikes Bareq, leaving Wissam trapped alone inside a ruined house with the starving baby. As ISIS fighters close in, Wissam struggles to soothe the child and search for escape, the baby’s cries growing ever louder.

In a shocking twist, the sniper is revealed to be a seventeen-year-old girl dressed in ISIS uniform—yet in truth the baby’s mother. From her hidden position, she embraces and nurses her child, while Wissam lies wounded, suspended between life and death. A haunting story of survival and contradiction, Son of War explores the fragile line between enemy and victim, and the humanity that endures even amid the brutality of war.