Indledning
The short film “Baghdad Express” is about a girl named Maya, who works at her father’s restaurant.

In the start of the film we see the past where she has been at an interview for a fashion school, and it is her dream to be working in fashion, and her two friends Talal and Louise are encouraging her to follow her dreams.

Her father is sick, and Maya helps him. She is thinking back to the time when she used to sew with her mother. One day she gets home, her father asks her where she has been, and if she has been out with Talal who also works in the restaurant.

After this her father fires Talal, and Maya starts yelling at him at the restaurant. At home, her father tells her that he is sorry. She gets a letter from the fashion school but decides not to open, eventually she burns the letter and Maya is now determined to stay with her father instead.

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Uddrag
This film is centered around Maya, from the beginning we see how much of a well-behaved young woman she is. She works at her father’s restaurant and helps him with his illness. She is very loyal, and she clearly feels responsible for him.

An example of this is when they are at home and she is giving him his medicine (3:24) She is a sensitive girl, who cares a lot about her father and it seems like she thinks a lot about what is best for him instead of what she wants.