Zahed Haftlang was a teenage Iranian soldier sent to the front lines of the Iran-Iraq War; Najah Aboud was an Iraqi conscript who wanted no part of the fighting. The film opens with the moment their lives first crossed, in a bunker where Zahed found the wounded Najah and, against orders, chose to save his enemy's life rather than end it. Decades later the two men cross paths again by chance, this time in Vancouver, where both had resettled as refugees. Interviews with Zahed and Najah carry the film, supported by re-creations of the battlefield encounter and footage of their lives in Canada, as they describe the war's toll on their bodies and families and the strange coincidence that reunited them. The film traces how a single act of mercy in a war built on dehumanizing the other side turned into a decades-long friendship. It is a short, intimate account of two ordinary soldiers on opposite sides of one of the twentieth century's longest wars.