Overview

Afghanistan, Spring 2002 — Following the fall of the taliban regime, the country faces extreme poverty. To feed his family, a father is forced to sell his 15-year-old daughter to a 65-year-old man. Refusing to accept this fate for her child, the mother, determined to give her a brighter future, arranges a marriage with a man living in Montreal. In return, she makes a solemn promise: the children born of this union will one day marry their cousins remaining in Afghanistan. Montreal, Spring 2020 — The pact resurfaces. Now well integrated into Quebec society, Zarmina refuses to let her 15-year-old daughter marry her cousin in Afghanistan. Her firm opposition triggers a tragic chain of events.

Genres

Cast

Wazhma Bahar

Zarmina Latif

Julie Le Breton

Nancy Fortin

Firuz Ali Nazar

Wahid Latif

Saba Vahedyousefi

Marwa Latif

Saboor Sahak

Hakim Latif

Paeman Arianfar

Adbullah Latif

Sophie Cadieux

Directrice d'école

Guillaume Cyr

Policier

Effie Demetriou

Jeune Zarmina