
When As’ad, a 12-year-old rubbish picker, adopts an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, finding himself caught in the crossfire between abusive forces of commercialism and fundamentalism in a world where defenders of humanism have lost their power. He embraces the courage it takes to not just survive, but live.

as Taha

as Al Haji

as As'ad

as Amir

as Rasul

as Emad

as Tahseen

as American Mister

as Girl Next Door

as Salwah (voice)

as Abu Laith

as Abu Mustafa

as Sheikh

as Saif

as Pharmacist

as Alaa

as Angry Customer

as Muezzin (voice)