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Filmmakers Ebrahim Saeedi and Zahawi Sanjawi combine archival footage with contemporary interviews and eyewitness accounts to detail Saddam Hussein's vicious campaign against the Kurds of Iraq. Under the direct guidance of Hussein, the Baath Party launched Operation Anfal ("spoils of war") - a genocidal assault aimed at destroying Kurdish villages while taking as many lives as possible. It was only after Hussein's rule came to an end in 2003 that mass graves across Iraq were finally unearthed. One of those graves contained the remains of thousands of men who had previously been arrested and deported from a village in the Barzan region of Iraq. As the remains of those men are finally returned home, the revelation that their village is now populated almost entirely by widows highlights just how brutally efficient Hussein's violent campaign was.