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- The film opens in slow-motion, to the sound of Radiohead, in what looks like a children's Qu'ran school in a desert, where we see young boys having their heads shaved by soldiers. One of the boys, Abou Tarek, looks to the camera with a chilling stare as hair falls around his feet.
- Nawal's family killing her true love Wahab in front of her and then nearly shooting her in the head because of her pregnancy. If it wasn't for her grandmother intervening, Nawal would've been shot dead.
- The bus massacre. It's the movie's front cover art and most memorable scene for a reason. A group of Christian Nationalists open fire on a bus full of Muslim refugees, leaving Nawal and another woman with a child its sole survivors. Then Nawal, the woman and her child begin to panic when the Christian Nationalists pour gasoline all over the bus and set it on fire. Nawal narrowly escapes with her life by revealing her Christian heritage to the Nationalists but when she tries to save the woman's child by claiming that it as her own, the Nationalists shoot the woman dead, causing the child to cry out for her mother. As the Nationalists restrain Nawal, the crying child flees back to the bus to be with her dead mother, only to get shot in the back of the head by one of the Nationalists. Leaving only a shell shocked Nawal by the burning bus. Even scarier is that there is no sound during most of the scene and a haunting score to add to the emotional trauma.
- A teenage Abou Tarek mercilessly gunning down other young child soldiers as they attempt to hide out in an empty building for safety. The camera focuses on his eyes at one point, showing just how mad he is.
- As Nawal sings in her prison cell to keep herself sane, sounds of various women screaming echo throughout the prison walls. Who knows what tortures they've had to endure.
- In Kfar Ryat, Nawal is brought to another room where her tormentor Abou Tarek circles around her and continually looks her up and down before raping her. Thankfully the rape isn't depicted on-screen but the aftermath is shown with Abou Tarek zipping up his pants as he walks away and Nawal left a shaking, blubbering mess as she struggles to pull her pants up.
- When Nawal discovered she was pregnant from the rapes by Abou Tarek, she attempted to induce a miscarriage by punching herself in the stomach while the male prison guards protest on the other side of her prison cell door.
- One male prison worker suggests throwing the infant Simon and Jeanne into the river to be rid of them, just as they done so before with other infants. Luckily, the twins were spared such a death by being rescued by an elderly female nurse.
- The idea of your missing child being killed in a war or, at the very worst, taken in by Nationalists and grow up to become a child soldier and terrorist obsessed with war and violence. Little did Nawal know, the war-mad Nihad Of May was captured by the Nationalists, turned by them, trained to be a torturer, and then sent to Kfar Ryat, where he was given the name Abou Tarek.
- Imagine the horror of being reunited with your long-lost child, only to discover that they're your rapist too. Though Abou Tarek didn't recognize her, Nawal recognized him. This revelation was enough to cause Nawal to suffer a stroke and die not long after.
- Simon and Jeanne learning the awful truth about their heritage through a simple yet terrifying mathematical question ("One plus one...can it make one?"). The long silence and then Jeanne's loud gasp after putting the pieces together. Being the product of rape is one thing but also being the product of incest is a whole other level of horror.
