Through more than two hundred and fifty pictures the volume bears witness to the American occupation of Iraq between 2003 and 2004. The Dutch photojournalist made them while embedded with the American troops, just after President Bush had declared "Mission accomplished". He mixes a documentary manner with his own experience of the situation, adding notes taken from his diary, and covers the interrogations at Abu Ghraib, the search of mass graves, soldiers on patrol and daily life in Iraq as families try to find a semblance of normality among the rubble.