 His films brilliantly deal with the different and unexpected types of returns.Through the image of exiles seen in "From Karkheh to Rhein" and "The Scent of Joseph's Shirt", Roxanne Varzi notes that the audience come to understand the international scope of the war, and that what binds a nation is so much more than land.Hatamikia believes none Iranian could escape the mark of war, by virtue of association.