Dalil is thirteen years old and is experiencing the horrors of theGulf War with his family. Amidst the deafening sounds of bombs and the threat of missiles, only one thing makes him happy: Shaima. The lovehe feels for the girl is the only thing that allows him to make itthrough each day marked by fear, uncertainty and incomprehension. Asthe situation becomes increasingly unstable, his family debatesbetween staying in the country of leaving to join his uncle in France. But the idea of exile provokes contradictory feelings in Dalil: onone hand, he wants to leave the war behind, but on the other he can?timagine his life without Shaima.
