Based On True Events He was buried alive along with hundreds of other people from his town, but he survived. Now he is back to save as many people as he can, he's definitely not alone. During the Gulf War in 1990, a small Kurdish town in northern Iraq is under attack by Saddam Hussein's regime. There are high alert sirens in the main cities which can reach this town, but the big fear is that Iraqi planes are dropping chemical bombs. This kind of attack is not new to the local population as one of the nearby towns was gassed and left with nearly five thousand victims, but saving the general population's lives is on this small town's shoulders now.