Nasrin Hassan

It's Lava's 20th birthday. She spends her day drifting between classrooms, cafés, her car, and crowded living rooms as friends and family prepare celebration after celebration in her honor.

A priceless tablet of Gilgamesh, the oldest and most important work of literature is stolen from a museum. A security guard vows to do whatever it takes to get it back from a group of smugglers. Along the way, he faces his own inner demons.

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.

Revealing the truth about women and the culture of the Middle East