The world’s pre-eminent examiner of the plight of Iraqi Kurdistan follows up the acclaimed Kilometre Zero with this metaphoric political journey. When Azad’s wedding ceremony disintegrates into an armed conflict with the provocative Turkish military, he flees into the Kurdish region of Iraq. Along the way, he meets a broad cross section of people, each of who represents one facet of Kurdistan’s complex identity. Ceto is a returning to his home, hoping to bury his sister; Jekaf is a little girl at one time kidnapped by Iraqi soldiers; and Taman is a guerilla fighter training others to follow his lead. The “geographic and human Bermuda Triangle,” as Saleem refers to it, is a place in flux, trapped between its history and its desire to move forward peacefully. A lyrical and bizarrely humorous look at a region living under the shadow of war.