 The television series "The Red Soil" (2002–2003) momentarily exposes the absurdity of the concept of the nation as a homogeneous entity, with depiction of the confusion around which side of the border belongs on during the Iraqi occupation while portrays in-between spaces of an Iranian Arab and an Iraqi Arab.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.