Director Shakhwan Idrees’ debut film is a black comedy rooted in the Iran-Iraqi conflict. In a small Kurdish village in northern Iraq, Abdulrahman prepares for his nephew Serwan’s wedding. However, the happy day is soured when the sudden news of his nephew’s death on the battlefield arrives. While he cleans and dresses the corpse, he notices that the man wasn’t circumcised. Serwan was the son of the only Christian in the village, Noiell, and this couldn’t be possible. They search for the old man who performed the circumcision, but he doesn’t have a clear answer for them, and the identity of the body remains an unsolved mystery. On one hand, both Abdulrahman and Noiell feel responsible to carry out a proper funeral, while on the other hand, they hold onto the hope of the corpse not being Serwan. This tension-filled story explores issues dealing with the loss of a child, the devastation of a parent unaware of the whereabouts of missing children and the government’s response to these issues in a place where violence and conflict still exist. (KIM Ji-seok)