Description
Best friends Tamanna and Yasmine cannot believe their good fortune when a school is set up in their Afghan village, however, their dreams for the future are shattered when the Taliban burn down the school and threaten the teacher and students with death. As Tamanna is faced with the prospect of an arranged marriage to an older man and the Taliban target Yasmine’s Western – educated family, the girls realise they must flee. Travelling through perilous mountain passes, the two unaccompanied teens find themselves in moral danger as they confront land mines, a suicide bomber and roving brands of the Taliban. But when the two girls are separated, they are left without the one thing that has helped them survive – each other.
