Set in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk during the 1950s. The Last of the Angels tells the slyly humorous tale of three strikingly different people in one small neighborhood. During a labor
strike against the British-run Iraq Petroleum Company. Hameed Nylon becomes a labor organizer and later a revolutionary, like his hero. Mao Ise-Tung. His brother-in-law, the sheep butcher
Khidir Musa, travels to the Soviet Union to find his long-lost brothers, and returns home to great acclaim (and personal fortune) in an airship. Meanwhile, a young boy named Burhan Abdullah
discovers an old chest in the attic of his family's house that lets him talk to angels.
