In war, there are only losers. In life, there is always hope. During the Iran–Iraq War, Daoud deserts his army base to return the body of his deceased friend to his family.
Iraq, winter 1988. Daoud, a young man from Baghdad, is drafted into the war with Iran. At the front, he is assigned a gruesome task at the morgue: sorting the arrivals of dead bodies and organising their transport to their final resting place. For the “martyrs’, this means the family home; the “traitors” are dispatched to a mass grave in the desert. Among the dishonoured dead bodies, one man – Ali – is still breathing. When he finds the farewell letter Ali wrote to his beloved daughter, Daoud decides to save the man from this hell and reunite him with his family. He deserts the army and embarks on a dangerous journey to take his new friend home.
