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Nobody wants to be at the Battle Hospital. The giant tented camp close to the Iraqi border is run by the British Territorial Army to provide crucial trauma care to coalition soldiers. But more often doctors find themselves treating injured Iraqi children on fly-ridden operating tables. The hospital’s 650 staff, most of whom have abandoned their civilian practices, try to escape their surroundings through brass bands and discos but it’s an uphill struggle. And now the increasingly frustrated Iraqi fathers and children in Ward 2 are threatening to go on hunger strike in a bid to persuade the army to take them home. Embedded film maker Olly Lambert’s exclusive access provides a rare and sobering glimpse of modern war field hospitals, first made famous in the comedy series MASH. In stunning cinematography – shot on DV – Lambert contrasts the graphic horrors of the operating theatre with the dream-like state invoked by living in a desert limbo.