The Swallows of Kabul

In hot Kabul, amidst the ruins of war, two men and two women search for the meaning of their lives: a fallen bourgeois, a lawyer forbidden to practice her profession, a prison guard annihilated in the shadow of public executions, a terminally ill wife. Through this search for human dignity, the torment of a nation ravaged by war and madness, a country given over to the clergy and the tyranny of the Taliban, unfolds. And yet, where reason seems lost, love miraculously refuses to succumb. But what is a miracle in a country where “joys are as horrible as lynchings”?