This film based on refugee life in Iranian territories
is Majidi's personal comment on the heartbreaking plight of the
misunderstood people of neighbouring Afghanistan.

Set in 1989, after the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan and
before the rise of the Taliban, this film tells the story of a teenage
boy working on a construction site who loses his job to an illegally
hired Afghani worker.

The boy is forced into harder labor on the site, but a startling
gender twist gives him a completely different view of their lives
and changes his outlook on people forever.