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In Kabul in 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school and rarely leave the house, and their only hope lies in the ancient custom of "bacha posh," which allows young Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.
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Kabul - 10 years after 9/11: when a car bomb explodes in a crowded part of the city, a Japanese-American journalist is shocked to discover that the vehicle's passengers were acquaintances - three fellow ex-pats who had formed an unlikely love triangle. Convinced the events that led to the fatal explosion weren't random, and curious to know more about what led each of them to Afghanistan, the journalist follows a trail from Kabul to Louisiana, Maine,...
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