Sunday morning in Westmount. Fifteen-year-old Eric Brook is writing a history essay about Uday and Qusay, the sons of Saddam Hussein. His father Joe, a successful accountant, is about to take Eric’s reformed drug-addict uncle Victor to see their elderly father at the seniors′ residence. It’s a quiet, uneventful day... which turns suddenly menacing when Victor reveals that he owes money to a local mobster – money he doesn’t have – and the mobster is on his way over to collect. The irresistible force of Victor’s desperation confronts the immoveable object of Joe’s outrage as young Eric, excluded from the conflict by his father, finds himself drawn to the bright flame of his uncle’s recklessness. In the boy’s imagination his uncle and father become Uday and Qusay Hussein in the fateful aftermath of the American invasion: two men trapped in a sumptuous house as a mortal enemy approaches.
