Abdul Latif Salman has spent decades in the cab of an Iraqi train, and his career maps almost exactly onto his country's recent history. He once drove Saddam Hussein's private luxury train, then spent ten years as a prisoner of war in Iran, and later lost his son to a bomb attack. Filmmakers Rashed Radwan and Carmen Marques ride with him along Iraq's rail network, stopping at stations that were shut for years and are only now reopening, and talking to the passengers and rail workers who kept the line running through the worst of the fighting. Salman narrates as much through memory as through the passing landscape, using the track itself as a thread back through the war years, the occupation, and the sieges that emptied whole towns along the route. The film stays close to the train and the people on it rather than reaching for wider political analysis, letting one man's working life carry the larger story of a country still rebuilding its infrastructure and its everyday routines.