Zubaida Sahar

L’Afghanistan tombe aux mains des Talibans. Une jeune fille de douze ans vit seule dans la misère avec sa mère et sa grand-mère. Les femmes sont interdites de travailler, la mère n’a d’autre solution, pour subsister, que de travestir sa fille : désormais, elle sera un garçon et s’appellera Osama. La décision terrifie la fillette, angoissée que sa véritable identité ne soit reconnue par les Talibans…

A rural Afghan family living at the base of a mountain, struggles to survive during the last year of the Taliban and the beginning of a new war that still rages. Living under harsh and oppressive conditions, the family finds comfort in one another and in trying to rebuild their mountainous home. The youngest daughter, Zolykha, is specially receptive, curious and clairvoyant. Zolykha can sense and see spirits of strange men from the past that roam the hills and mountains behind her home. As Zolykha and her older siblings, Amena and Zalmai struggle to find meaning in life's natural and man-made tragedies, they discover new convictions to carry on.