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Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 a young and charismatic film student Muthana Mohmed stands in the rubble of the citys film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed first by Saddam Hussein then by American bombs This brief fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthanas life forever Watching in the United States actordirector Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing utterly captivated Feeling guilty about a war he opposed Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime to come to Prague to work on an American movie Everything Is Illuminated On set frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a crosscultural endeavor gone awry Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqis life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms
