Play Book Tag discussion

(read in French)

Set in Bagdad under American occupation, the tale focuses on events taking place in a small street in one of the poorer quarters of the city. We meet Hadi, who tells tall tales at the local café and stitches together a body from parts he finds at the sites the frequent bombings. And Oum Daniel whose son was sent to war some twenty years earlier and never came back. Abou Anmar who owns the run down hotel that bleeds the last of his money. Mahmoud al Sawadi, the journalist who picks up Hadi's tale and who links it to people and events outside the little street.

Here is a fresh take on the Frankenstein theme that focuses much more on the real life in Bagdad, than it does on the presence in the background of the corpse come to life through the soul of a man who lost his body in a bombing and is now seeking revenge for those who gave it parts of his body.