After the war between Iraq and Iran finally ends, the people of Iraq rejoice after suffering a long period of oppression, but Uncle Bassiouni is arrested and accused of espionage after he spoke to his colleague about his anger at the shooting of innocent people.
Akram greatly admires communist books, even though his brother works in the Ba'ath Party, and he is comrade Tawfiq, who transmits security information about his region. Wafaa’s father is martyred in the war, and her mother lives in constant sadness. She also gets engaged to Akram.
The disabled Raad reads about Marxist ideology and is against the Ba'ath Party. After Hassouni’s father is arrested on charges of spying against the regime, Hassouni is interrogated and Akram is detained for opposing the way detainees are treated.
Hassouni's father is interrogated and forced to sign a statement about things he did not commit, while Tawfiq goes to the bar amid Colonel Shaker’s refusal.
Akram comes out of detention and Tawfiq offers him a party token for the purpose of obtaining a government job, but he refuses. Raad likes Mohja and tries to talk to her, while Hassouni's father is still in detention.
Ali, accused of trading in banned books, is being sought, and Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party annex Kuwait to Iraq and consider it a dependent province.
Akram enlists in the military in accordance with Haifa's wishes, while Hassouni returns home to put an end to Saadoun's coming to search for him and harassing his sister.
Gharqan chases Hassouni's sister in order to get closer to her. Jaafar meets Youssef bin Abdullah and is very happy. Tawfiq is thinking of going to Kuwait as part of the party group that decides to spread Ba'athist ideology there.
Qais admires Akram's sister, Alia, and tries to get close to her, while Madiha refuses to marry Gharqan. Akram suffers from hunger, torture, and fatigue in the military, but he endures in order to return to Basra.
Alia asks her father to go to the camp to ask about Akram since he's late in returning. Saddam decides to withdraw from the occupation of Kuwait due to international rejection.
Tawfiq asks Badia to marry him and stop working in the club, but she refuses. Akram is still in the military and his family doesn't know where the camp is. Iraq is experiencing a critical period of division among the people, as some are loyal to the Ba'athist Party, and some reject it.
The Gulf War begins and missiles fall on Iraq, especially Basra, amid the fear of the population. Alia also fears greatly for Akram because he is fighting within the motorized division against Kuwait.
As the coalition strikes against Iraq continue, both Tawfiq and his father fear for Akram because he is on the front, while Akram and his comrades suffer from a lack of food and from fear every day that missiles will fall on the shelter in which they are staying.
Akram and his comrades rejoice over Iraq's partial victory, and Raad tells his mother about his attachment to a girl who won't accept him, much to her sadness.
The Iraqi people revolt against the war on Kuwait, storm the Ba'ath Party offices, and burn documents. Tawfiq decides to leave the party, fearing for his life, while his father is saddened by not finding his son. Akram and his comrades decide to return to their homes.
Akram and his comrades Jassim, Hassan, and Hassouni leave the battlefront and try to reach their homes despite the storm in the Hafar Al Batin area. Badia finds a large sum of money in Tawfiq’s apartment, while he tries to go there but can't due to the presence of militias and anti-party people.
The army suffers great losses in lives and equipment, to the point that Akram and his comrades form a mini-army under his leadership. Rockets pummel Baghdad, amidst the panic of the population, while the men go out to defend it against the coalition forces.
The Iraqi people are divided into those loyal to and against the regime, and the Peshmerga forces fire missiles at Saddam's army with the aim of gaining independence and the establishment of the Kurdistan region.
Saddam's army is victorious and the party returns to work, and so does Tawfiq, who leaves his home after a long period of hiding. Raad has not returned home and his mother searches for him everywhere. The regime's army imprisons and tortures all members of the Peshmerga.
Tawfiq is detained, and his father does not know his whereabouts, nor does he know the whereabouts of Akram, who is still in Hafar Al Batin. The uprising against the regime and the Ba'ath Party continues.
Umm Raad (Raad's mother) misses her son, while Tawfiq is released on the condition that he hand over all of his belongings related to his membership in the party.
Badia and her friend hold private parties in the apartment for party men, while Tawfiq goes there, but she does not open the door for him, fearing his reaction.
Umm Raad is saddened by the disappearance of her son, while Qais is certain that Raad has been martyred, and Tawfiq tells his father that he has left work. A helicopter appears in the desert sky calling on soldiers to surrender.
Tawfiq searches for Badia every day, but he is unable to meet her, so he asks Alia for help. Muhammad is struck by a mine in the Hafar Al Batin desert and dies amidst his friends’ grief and fear of the same fate.
Badia tries to escape, but Shaker prevents her, while Tawfiq's father learns of his son's relationship with her and becomes angry with him. Akram buries his friend Muhammad amidst the grief of the rest of the soldiers.
Akram and his friends are found in the desert by an army patrol, who take them to a prison, while Tawfiq travels to Baghdad in search of Badia amid his father’s anger.
Jaafar's brother is still imprisoned because he does not tell the officer where his brother and Youssef are. Umm Raad carries her son's chair and walks around the streets, calling for him.
Akram returns to the village and everyone rejoices at his safe return. Qais tells Umm Raad that her son has been martyred. Tawfiq is still searching for Badia in Baghdad but cannot find her, while she decides to travel outside Iraq.
Tawfiq's father decides to go to Baghdad to search for him, while he has become homeless. Umm Raad finally finds her son's head among the remains in one of the cemeteries that were opened to search for the bodies of the martyrs after the overthrow of Saddam and the Ba'ath Party.