Dalil is thirteen years old and is experiencing the horrors of the Gul f War with his family. Amidst the deafening sounds of bombs and the th reat of missiles, only one thing makes him happy: Shaima. The love he feels for the girl is the only thing that allows him to make it throug h each day marked by fear, uncertainty and incomprehension. As the sit uation becomes increasingly unstable, his family debates between stayi ng in the country of leaving to join his uncle in France. But the idea of exile provokes contradictory feelings in Dalil: on one hand, he wa nts to leave the war behind, but on the other he can?t imagine his lif e without Shaima.