Itinerant Kurdish Teachers, Carrying Blackboards On Their Backs, Look For Students In The Hills And Villages Of Iran, Near The Iraqi Border During The Iran-Iraq War. Said Falls In With A Group Of Old Men Looking For Their Bombed-out Village; He Offers To Guide Them, And Takes As His Wife Halaleh, The Clan’s Lone Woman, A Widow With A Young Son. Reeboir Attaches Himself To A Dozen Pre-teen Boys Weighed Down By Contraband They Carry Across The Border; They’re Mules, Always On The Move. Said And Reeboir Try To Teach As Their Potential Students Keep Walking. Danger Is Close; Armed Soldiers Patrol The Skies, The Roads, And The Border. Is There A Role For A Teacher? Is There Hope?