在这部VANGUARDS片中,Recess is over. The primary school children are no longer children. They become the “vanguard of the Baath“ who, lined up in rows, yell nationalist slogans under the command of an all-powerful schoolmistress. One of the children seems distressed by her own cries. She raises her right arm in the semblance of a Baath salute, but her heart is not in it. In the end, she turns her head towards the cries for freedom coming from the street.
