During the Iraqi-Iranian war whichstarted in 1980 and lasted for eight years, aMuslim family in a Kurdish village receives fromthe government the corpse of their son who hasbeen killed in the war. While preparing for thefuneral they discover that the corpse is notcircumcised and they have doubts. Once theytell their Christian neighbours, the problembecomes worse as each family claims that thebody is theirs.