August 8, 2005, DVD. We both were strongly moved by this painful and powerful story of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban. It is a film that shows reality going from bad to worse, where no good deed goes unpunished and where all joy in life is suspect. It is a horribly and brutally painful movie without any gore. It is all in the knowledge that this is real. A young girl is passed off as a boy so that she will be able to earn money for her starving mother (a war widow) and grandmother. The results are not good. The featured interview with the director is not great, but it has some moments that make it worth watching. See this one, but it is seriously depressing.