Just outside of Baghdad, an Iraqi medical student rescues a seriously injured American soldier. Although Zaina Melehy has conflicted feelings about saving one of her country s occupiers, she still brings Major Anthony Aroyan to her physician father for treatment. Because she is unsure of how her father will receive an American soldier, she disguises Anthony as an Iraqi peasant and instructs him to remain silent. Zaina and her family have been embittered by the American occupation and the brutal rape and murder of Zaina s sister at the hands of men employed by a shadowy American security...