Shirin-Gol was just a young girl when her village was levelled by the Russians' bombs in 1979. After the men in her family joined the resistance, she fled with the women and children to the capital, Kabul, and so began a life of day-to-day struggle in her war-torn country. A life that includes a per[...]

Under en af sine mange rejser til Afghanistan møder dokumentarfilmskaberen Siba Shakib kvinden Shirin-Gol i en flygtningelejr og fascineres af hendes styrke og udstråling. Shirin-Gol fortæller om sit liv, der er typisk for mange afghanske kvinders skæbne. Hun bliver født i en afsidesliggende bj[...]