Screenplay

Shifting Sands

Baghdad, December, 2006. The eve of Saddam's execution.

Julia Hendry, a reporter from Minneapolis, received a prestigious journalism award in 2004 for her coverage of a squad of Minnesota Army Reservists during their year in Iraq. In 2006, they are called up again and Julia prevails upon her publisher to let her go to Iraq to once again report their stories, this time in-country. It doesn't go well.

Julia is eager to discover the truth about the dictator, about the war.  She quickly discovers that truth is an elusive and relative commodity in Saddam’s Iraq, and echoing the American journalist, Steve Coll, she comes to realize that, “The Middle East has a way of exposing the vanities of all foreign policy thinkers.”