"We were scientists, philosophers and storytellers, but we were at the edges of empires at war with each other."

A young girl named Parvana listens to her father, Nuralla, a former teacher, talk about Afghanistan. She imagines invaders, one after the other one, through history. The stories in her mind taking on the quality of colorful, vivid, animated paper cut outs. She is told of a time not so long ago but seemingly out of reach, when women could go to school, just like the men.

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