The apartment that Parvana shares with her broken-hearted mother, Fattema ( Laara Sadiq) argumentative older sister, Soraya ( Shaista Latif) and toddler brother, Zaki, becomes a kind of prison, too. But Afghan political history takes on a terrible urgency for her when the city’s self-appointed moral guardians, the Taliban, cart the worldly Nurullah to prison for questioning their restrictive edicts. Parvana sighs in boredom over the litany of invaders: Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan and, in more recent years, the Soviets. A former schoolteacher, he instills a sense of history in his young daughter - specifically, the history of their country as the site of countless incursions and occupations over the centuries. The action unfolds in 2001, when Parvana (voiced with spirit and intelligence by Saara Chaudry) regularly accompanies her father, Nurullah (Ali Badshah), on his trips to the central market, where he hawks miscellaneous items along with his letter-writing and -reading skills.
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