Latif al Ani, born in Baghdad in 1932 is known as the 'father of Iraqi photography’. His work forms a unique visual archive of Iraq during its heydays from the 1950s to 1970s and are a profound insight into the country, mostly unknown to Westerners and even Iraqi people themselves. When Saddam took power, Al Ani stopped photographing. For a long time he had to hide. In 2015, he received the prestigious Prince Claus Award, awarded annually by the Dutch Royal Family. This recognition has given Al Ani new confidence and a desire to reconnect with his work, his country and to travel the world like he did freely so many years ago. Now, 15 years after the last invasion of the Americans, he is travelling with his photographs, telling stories and showing the unknown Iraq of those days. He is receiving a warm welcome from the people he meets. Accompanying him on his journey is the director, Sahim Omar Kalifa, born in Iraq in 1980, 48 years after Al Ani. Sahim is one of the most important ambassadors of modern cinema in Iraq. He wants to explore the history and culture of their country through Latif’s visual archive. Together they will journey in Iraq and meet people who are constantly amazed by Al Ani’s images - of an Iraq that many of them have never known, or even didn’t know had existed. The director will use his pictures as a way to conduct a dialogue with the past, and ask what happened to our country? In this conversation between past and present, two generations of visual artists, inspired by their country, ask profound questions about past and future, love and hate