The Agony of a People

Sulaymaniah Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1940s When his wife Kaleh goes into labor her husband Jwamer runs to get the midwife By ill luck he runs into the middle of a political demonstration and is seriously wounded and arrested by mistake as the ringleader After a rigged trial Jwamer is sentenced to ten years in prison He serves his sentence and as soon as he is set free goes in search of his wife and child