The author, a worker with the UN Refugee Agency, has brought together a wide variety of personal accounts, paintings, and photographs, interwoven with information about Saddam Hussein's rule, the invasion and subsequent internal strife, to create a poignant testimony to the lives of Iraqi refugees. Individual stories are heartbreaking: a school friend is murdered by militia for having the 'wrong' name; a young Palestinian boy longing for a home and place of safety has lived his whole life in limbo, a refugee several times over, his brother having been shot on the streets of Baghdad for being 'Palestinian'. This is a powerful and compassionate book;,concluding with suggestions for using the material in schools within the context of learning about the work of the United Nations Refugee Agency, fundamental human rights and their violation.