The Killing Flower is a story about an idealistic young man, deeply and personally affected by the attacks on 9/11, who goes off to war in Iraq to make things right, to save America, to prevent the next one. But things arent that simple. Weighed down by his own psychological issues, he first must resolve who he is, which of the two completely opposing ideologies of his parents is correct, and ultimately which reality he will choose to believe. Through an unusual set of events he meets a little Iraqi girl, and is presented two actual physical realities. What he does with them not only decides her fate, but affects his mission to save others.