This collection of short interviews with children and young people forced to flee their homeland in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq is full of poignant and sometimes harrowing detail. The children tell their own stories of lives in limbo and uncertain futures as they wait to hear whether any country will offer a more permanent home than the precarious refuge they have found in Jordan and neighbouring states. The book presents a deeply affecting portrait of the social consequences of war and its impact on the human rights of children.