A documentary that touches upon the politics of water in Iraq, and the consequences of the years of embargo upon the Iraqi people. Pursuing the course of the Euphrates, the film starts off with the story of an Iraqi fishermen and the problems he has had since the end of the Gulf War, including the situation around the town of Fao, which was occupied by the Iranians for two years during the first Persian Gulf War. It continues with shots of a rally for the anniversary of the liberation of Fao, engineered by Iraqi soldiers; the personal situation of the family of a fisherman in Barah who discusses the uprising in the south after the end of the Gulf War; the situations of Najaf and Karbala—the sacred cities of the Shiites; the story of the Marsh Arabs; and the drying of the marshes. The film includes shots of Iraqi rebels in Southern Iraq and images from Camp Atrush in Kurdistan. It also documents the Turkish policies against the Kurdish populations in southeast Turkey and the problems with building dams in the Kurdish region. Includes an interview with Turkish President Süleyman Demirel about the source of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and their influence on the water politics of the Middle East. The documentary then shifts to Syria and the polluted water which crosses from Turkey into Syria and destroys the Syrian crops. The film proceeds with the description of the living conditions in Diyarbakir, a Kurdish city in southeast Turkey and ends in Halabja, Iraq, at the memorial to the victims of the Halabja gas attack which occurred in the late 1980s.