A beautiful and sad Kurdish girl, with despair in her eyes, stands on the edge of a cliff. The cliff is ancient and desolate, and there is a deep spring under the cliff. The cold wind blew against her clothes, and her crimson clothes contrasted with the gray-yellow mountains, making the atmosphere even more desolate. Her jump made the audience's heart sink to the bottom. This is the beginning of the movie, and the movie is shocking from the beginning. The protagonists in the film are all children, children who have not taken off their childishness but have been burdened with the burden of life, and children who are soaked in the suffering of the nation.
The story takes place during the time when the US military entered Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein's regime. Kurdish villages in border areas, ravaged by war and brutally suppressed by Saddam Hussein, are beginning to welcome this period of change with both hope and fear. Young and middle-aged people are rarely seen in this village, and most of them died in the war. There are only many children and some old people. They all carry the wounds of war, and the children are disabled or sick, lacking the care of their parents, just like weeds growing tenaciously in the wild. They live in tents in the mountains, and their means of making a living is to dig mines to sell. Every day, they are accompanied by abandoned tanks and artillery shells piled up everywhere at the entrance of the village. In this cruel environment, the children here are more precocious, more able to make a living, and more tenacious than children in other places.
The film installs TV antennas from all over the village to watch the US-Iraq war as an entry point. That smart and thin child with eyes "Satellite" shows his talent and talent, he has a natural sensitivity to new things, he knows some English words, and he knows more or less about the outside world. , also know some technical knowledge, and he is also enthusiastic and helpful, so he has become the king of children and an indispensable helper for the elders in the village to understand the current situation. The elders begged him to install TV antennas, tune them up, and beg him to translate news for them. This is reminiscent of the wizards in the ancient tribes. With their knowledge, they monopolized the channel of communication with the gods and became the spiritual leaders of the tribe. "Satellite" also has such a talent, but what he possesses is new knowledge, what he knows is modern news and current affairs, and in the modern world, for isolated villages, information itself plays a key role in the survival of the tribe. Therefore, he is also a new hope for the Kurds, and perhaps only someone like him can lead the tribe out of misery. However, he himself is suffering, he is a Kurdish orphan, and like a curse, he is also soaked in suffering. When the US military entered the mountain village, in order to save people, his leg was also injured by a landmine, and the jump of the girl he loved also brought his hope. Finally, "satellites" also have the ability to predict the future, but what's the use of predicting the future? All that he foresees is suffering, the pain that he cannot resolve.
Adeline's image in the film is always sad, her beautiful face can't hide her inner pain, and her tired face hides suffering. She always carried the little brother with eyesight on her back. Together with her brother, she was a refugee living in this village. Their family is at a distance from other children in this village, but "Satellite" fell in love with her, and although she had conflicts with her brother, she always helped her. But under Adeline's weak appearance, there are extremely painful memories. On her shoulders is not only the blind brother, but also the suffering of the entire Kurds. She was powerless to bear the pain, and life was hopeless for her. Her hope is to let go of the secrets she can't bear, and her final destination is that deep pool. The pool of water can hide the secrets that tortured her, and the pool of water can also wash away the humiliation that the Iraqi military has inflicted on her.
Adeline's brother was an armless boy whose arms were blown off by landmines, but he was still alive and strong, dismantling landmines with his own mouth in order to support his younger siblings. He understands the pain in his sister's heart and her unspoken secret, but it is his responsibility to keep his family alive. In a village he was unfamiliar with, he soon found a way to make a living. Although he was taciturn, he also showed a strong sense of strength, and even the "Satellites" frightened him. More importantly, he is able to predict the future, and future scenes will appear in his mind. He uses this ability to keep himself out of danger, and also to keep villagers out of the fire during the war. But his foreknowledge could not break the spell, nor could he save the lives of his younger siblings. At the end of the film, he had someone relay his final prediction to the "satellite" that something big would happen in 275 days. What will the big event be? Nothing but another ordeal for the Kurds. For a nation that has suffered and struggled for centuries with no hope in sight, predicting the future will only make it more miserable, because joy will never be with them.
Watching this movie, you must first understand the history of the Kurdish nation; and through this movie, you can also understand what is flowing in the blood of each Kurd.
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