Dimensions
120 x 185 x 18mm
It is 1968, and young Azad lives with his family in a small village in Iraqi Kurdistan. He clambers onto rooftops to watch his cousin's champion trained pigeons, devours pomegranates in his mother's garden and is in awe of his father's polished old Czech rifle. His uncle buys the neighbourhood's first television and Azad marvels at the miracle of the flickering images but wonders why all of the programmes are in Arabic and none of them show any Kurds.
Azad's peaceful rural life is shattered when his cousin Mamou is hunted down and shot by the government militia. The family escapes to a cave in the hills where they are bombarded from the air by napalm. Returning home, they find their house has been razed to the ground and their orchard destroyed. To defend his family and homeland, Azad's father picks up his old rifle and joins the resistance. But the whole family is captured and forced into refugee camps as their lands are stolen and their culture forbidden.
