On 2 August 1990 at 2:00 am local time, Iraq launched an invasion of Kuwait with four elite Iraqi Republican Guard divisions.

And towards the end of the first day of the invasion, only pockets of resistance were left in the country.

Most of the Kuwaitis who were arrested, tortured, and executed during the occupation were civilians.

During the 7-month occupation, the forces of Saddam Hussein looted Kuwait’s vast wealth and there were also reports of violations of Human rights.

The occupation of Kuwait may have only lasted seven months, but the memory of it remains strong, not least in the minds of the children of that conflict.

At the end of the school year of 1990, students in an international school in Kuwait said their final farewells as they headed off for the summer holidays. Many of them would never meet again.

Nashwa Nasreldin was one of those whose family was forced to relocate following the invasion.

Twenty years on, in 2010, she returns to Kuwait, the country of her birth, along with a group of her classmates as they organise a reunion to find out what happened to their friends – and their school – during the war that separated them.