A touching tale of a young man who redeems himself by going back to his hometown in Afghanistan to rescue his nephew from the clutches of the Taliban.Young Amir (Zekeria Ebrahimi) sees Young Hassan (Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada) as his best friend, but little does he know that he is also his father's son, after an affair with a local woman. Young Amir is perceived as the weak one, and Young Hassan has to defend him from bullies more than once. One time, Young Hassan was cornered and was sodomized by Young Assef (Elham Ehsas). Young Amir witnessed the event, but was too cowardly to do anything about it. Guilty for not standing up to his friend, he starts alienating Young Hassan until his family left.
Many years later, Amir is now a successful writer in the US. He receives news from his father's former associate that Hassan and his wife has been killed by the Talibans, and his nephew Sohrab taken as hostage. Determined to do right by his slain brother, Amir goes back to Kabul, and with the aid of a local driver, rescues the mentally- and physically-abused Sohrab back to the US. How an injured, unshaven man rescues a boy from a heavily-guarded Taliban stronghold and brings him in to the US, I will never understand.
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