There Lived in Baghdad

Against the background of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the story follows the life of two people.

Sameera Begum is an ordinary woman living in extraordinary times. It is a time when Baghdad is being bombed to smithereens. A time when Sameera, a simple housewife, evolves from what she was to what she never thought she would ever become.

Mike Pettee is a young marine in the United States Army. Trained and primed for war, he had never actually fought in one. And when thrust into the frontlines, he discovers that war, as he had thought it would be, is very different from war as it actually turns out to be.

This is a story of these two people. Two people unaware of each other’s existence. Two people whose lives moved on paths that were completely different and separate from each other. Yet, these were paths destined to meet at a crossroad. Two lines moving towards a single point.