Abu Hishma, is a farm village 70 miles north of Baghdad. Next to a US airbase, the village has to carry the collective burden for the attacks on the base by the resistance. The village is surrounded by razor-edged barbedwire and all male between 18 and 65 years need a special I.D. to leave and enter the village. Villagers have been arrested to pressure people to come forwards with information about the resistance. A few times the surroundings of Abu Hishma were bombed to scare the villagers. Before the war they were a quiet agricultural community, living in peace and not interested in politics. Now they feel threatened and humiliated by the American Forces. Against their teacher's advise the children in the village didn't remove the portrait of Saddam Hussein from their schoolbooks. It reminded them of a more happy time.