InthemonthsleadinguptotheTalibantakeoverin2021,Afghanistan’syoungestfemalemayor,ZarifaGhafari,dealswithdanger,uncertainty,andpersonalturmoil....

As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns, these scars run much deeper than the surface....