The Corpse Washer

Young Jawad, born to a Shi'ite family of corpse washers and shrouders in Baghdad, decides to abandon the family tradition, choosing instead to become a sculptor, to celebrate life rather than tend to death. He enters Baghdad's Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, determined to forge his own path. But the circumstances of history dictate otherwise.

Tanarul Jawad, nascut intr-o familie siita de spalatori de cadavre si inmormantatori din Bagdad, decide sa abandoneze traditia familiei, alegand in schimb sa devina sculptor, sa celebreze viata in loc sa se ocupe de moarte. Intra la Academia de Arte Frumoase din Bagdad in anii 1980, hotarat sa-si croiasca propriul drum.