Kilomètre Zéro is the first Iraqi film chosen for the official Cannes competition.

The scene then switches to a Kurdish village a few weeks before the Halabja poison gas attack where Ako, a young Kurdish man, is forced to join the Iraqi Army, while he is dreaming of escaping the country.

When Ako is given a mission to escort the coffin of a dead Iraqi soldier to his family, an unexpected opportunity for escaping comes up.

In another, the two men are sitting together as they take a break, and the driver refuses to let Ako look at a picture of his wife.

They discuss how much they lost during the war, and hear the news that Baghdad has fallen to Coalition troops.