Photo credit: Kali Rubaii, (2021), Fallujah, Iraq.

In houses where the door is still on (not a given in Fallujah), you start the clearing process through the stack. Make sure that you are clear of immediate threats outside before issuing that command.

In the process, the son begins to trace the story of modern Iraq, reconstructing Rami’s childhood in Fallujah and weaving together stories of his own youth in Paris as a French-born Iraqi exile.