1 00:02:39,700 --> 00:02:43,690 San Francisco, California 2 00:02:58,990 --> 00:03:02,230 - You ready? - Yeah. Let's go. 3 00:03:10,610 --> 00:03:13,020 - Is that what I think it is? - I think so. 4 00:03:13,110 --> 00:03:16,230 - You nervous? - As long as they spelled my name right. 5 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,850 - You want a moment alone with it? - I want you right here with me. 6 00:03:36,570 --> 00:03:37,900 There it is. 7 00:03:38,490 --> 00:03:39,730 There it is. 8 00:03:44,900 --> 00:03:46,230 Your baby. 9 00:03:52,990 --> 00:03:54,180 I'll get it. 10 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:04,310 Hello? 11 00:04:06,110 --> 00:04:07,850 Hello? 12 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:10,070 Amirjan. 13 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:12,730 Rahim Khan? 14 00:04:14,530 --> 00:04:16,730 It is kind of you to remember. 15 00:04:22,070 --> 00:04:24,990 I have missed you, Amir jan. 16 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:28,020 It's good to hear your voice. 17 00:04:28,900 --> 00:04:30,440 You should come home. 18 00:04:31,450 --> 00:04:32,560 Home? 19 00:04:35,610 --> 00:04:37,820 I don't know if now's such a good time. 20 00:04:38,570 --> 00:04:42,230 It's a very bad time, but you should come. 21 00:04:42,860 --> 00:04:45,650 There is a way to be good again, Amir. 22 00:04:55,650 --> 00:04:59,230 Kabul, Afghanistan 23 00:05:08,860 --> 00:05:10,900 Take the spool. Hold it right. 24 00:05:23,610 --> 00:05:24,890 Give me string! 25 00:05:25,860 --> 00:05:27,400 Hold the spool right. 26 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:38,650 - I cut him! - Victory! 27 00:05:40,150 --> 00:05:41,650 Victory! 28 00:05:43,320 --> 00:05:44,350 This way! 29 00:05:44,900 --> 00:05:46,100 Where are you going? 30 00:05:47,570 --> 00:05:49,360 Catch it, it's going this way! 31 00:06:02,860 --> 00:06:04,400 We're losing it! 32 00:06:04,990 --> 00:06:06,650 Trust me! 33 00:06:35,610 --> 00:06:36,860 What are you doing here? 34 00:06:38,150 --> 00:06:39,610 Come sit, Amir. 35 00:06:42,150 --> 00:06:44,060 You're wasting time here. 36 00:06:44,780 --> 00:06:46,570 The kite went the other way. 37 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:48,360 It will come this way. 38 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:50,940 - How do you know? - I know. 39 00:06:51,070 --> 00:06:52,180 But how? 40 00:06:52,700 --> 00:06:54,350 Have I ever lied to you? 41 00:06:55,280 --> 00:06:56,690 How should I know? 42 00:06:57,780 --> 00:06:59,600 I'd rather eat dirt. 43 00:07:00,530 --> 00:07:02,190 Would you really do that? 44 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:05,060 - Do what? - Eat dirt if I told you to. 45 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:08,350 If you asked, I would. 46 00:07:11,530 --> 00:07:13,570 But would you really ask me to do such a thing? 47 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:15,400 Are you crazy? 48 00:07:15,860 --> 00:07:16,940 You know I wouldn't. 49 00:07:17,740 --> 00:07:19,110 I know. 50 00:07:37,950 --> 00:07:39,400 Thank you, Agha sahib. 51 00:07:43,900 --> 00:07:46,270 I want them to start building tomorrow. 52 00:07:46,650 --> 00:07:48,440 This should have happened a long time ago. 53 00:07:49,700 --> 00:07:52,360 Absolutely, Sahib! And thank you. 54 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:55,850 The orphans of Kabul will never forget you. 55 00:07:59,030 --> 00:08:00,110 Somehow 56 00:08:00,820 --> 00:08:02,440 I suspect they will. 57 00:08:05,530 --> 00:08:06,730 You know 58 00:08:07,700 --> 00:08:11,520 the bureaucrats will steal half the money. 59 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:13,360 Only half? 60 00:08:14,950 --> 00:08:17,100 They've gotten lazy. 61 00:08:20,530 --> 00:08:22,930 Hey, Mister Jaylawni 62 00:08:23,030 --> 00:08:25,350 Conjure up the winds for me 63 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:27,940 You could have beaten him. 64 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,110 Me? Weren't you watching Omar back there? 65 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:32,520 He never loses. 66 00:08:32,740 --> 00:08:36,650 If you have the right kite, you'll win the tournament this year. 67 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:40,690 With the victory of Saur Revolution 68 00:08:41,150 --> 00:08:44,440 for the first time in the history of this country 69 00:08:44,990 --> 00:08:48,680 the political sovereignty and political power have been bestowed 70 00:08:49,030 --> 00:08:53,020 upon the Democratic Party of the People of Afghanistan. 71 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:58,230 This will get bloody before it gets better. 72 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:00,430 Usually a safe bet. 73 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:06,350 They say the Communists are starting brawls at the university. 74 00:09:07,570 --> 00:09:10,940 A student was stabbed last week. 75 00:09:12,030 --> 00:09:15,440 I'm glad Amir's too young to be involved in all this. 76 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,480 Amir? 77 00:09:19,610 --> 00:09:22,530 Trust me, he won't be getting into any brawls. 78 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:27,020 Sometimes I see him playing on the street with the neighbourhood boys. 79 00:09:28,860 --> 00:09:33,190 They push him around, take his toys from him, 80 00:09:33,530 --> 00:09:34,610 but Amir, 81 00:09:34,860 --> 00:09:37,530 he never fights back. Never. 82 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:39,570 So he's not violent. 83 00:09:40,030 --> 00:09:42,430 You know what happens when the other kids tease him? 84 00:09:43,530 --> 00:09:46,020 Hassan steps in and fends them off. 85 00:09:46,450 --> 00:09:48,900 And when they come home, I say to him, 86 00:09:49,030 --> 00:09:51,070 "How did Hassan get that scrape on his face?" 87 00:09:51,240 --> 00:09:53,730 He says, "He fell down." 88 00:09:54,780 --> 00:09:56,730 There's something missing in that boy. 89 00:09:58,650 --> 00:09:59,730 My friend, 90 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:03,030 children aren't colouring books. 91 00:10:03,780 --> 00:10:06,350 You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours. 92 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:10,690 He's not like you. He'll never be like you. 93 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:13,900 But watch. He'll turn out well. 94 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:17,350 A boy who won't stand up for himself, 95 00:10:17,450 --> 00:10:20,400 becomes a man who won't stand up for anything. 96 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:39,480 Amir jan, 97 00:10:40,200 --> 00:10:42,190 may I come in? 98 00:10:46,780 --> 00:10:49,310 I wanted to say goodbye. 99 00:10:49,400 --> 00:10:51,530 I'm going to Pakistan tomorrow. 100 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:57,310 That's a fine kite. 101 00:10:58,030 --> 00:11:00,020 Hassan ran it down. 102 00:11:01,030 --> 00:11:03,020 The boy's got a gift. 103 00:11:06,320 --> 00:11:08,280 What are you working on? 104 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:10,860 A story. 105 00:11:10,950 --> 00:11:12,230 May I read it? 106 00:11:12,990 --> 00:11:14,690 It's not very good. 107 00:11:15,530 --> 00:11:19,520 All the same, I'd love to read it. 108 00:11:22,950 --> 00:11:24,520 Thank you, Amir jan. 109 00:11:25,030 --> 00:11:26,650 I'll read it tonight. 110 00:11:28,070 --> 00:11:29,860 He hates me 111 00:11:31,650 --> 00:11:33,560 because I killed her. 112 00:11:34,900 --> 00:11:36,480 My mother. 113 00:11:39,070 --> 00:11:40,440 Amir, 114 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,150 don't ever say such a thing. 115 00:11:44,110 --> 00:11:45,770 Don't ever think it. 116 00:11:46,070 --> 00:11:47,480 But it's true. 117 00:11:48,150 --> 00:11:49,320 No, Amir jan. 118 00:11:57,450 --> 00:12:00,060 It's a dangerous thing, being born. 119 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,570 Dangerous for the mother, 120 00:12:04,490 --> 00:12:06,980 dangerous for the child. 121 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:11,690 Your father would die for you. 122 00:12:12,490 --> 00:12:14,280 You know that, 123 00:12:16,700 --> 00:12:19,020 don't you? 124 00:12:25,320 --> 00:12:26,560 Amir jan. 125 00:12:27,900 --> 00:12:30,770 - Come on, do it. - It's wrong, Amir agha. 126 00:12:32,570 --> 00:12:35,140 Do you have to be so holy all the time? 127 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:37,360 Just one? 128 00:12:38,070 --> 00:12:39,150 Just one. 129 00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,650 You'd think one day he'd wise up. 130 00:12:59,280 --> 00:13:00,990 You got your allowance? 131 00:13:01,610 --> 00:13:03,480 Yeah, how about we see The Magnificent Seven again? 132 00:13:04,990 --> 00:13:07,190 We deal in lead, friend! 133 00:13:11,030 --> 00:13:14,890 I'm a friend of Harry Luck's. He tells me you're broke. 134 00:13:16,030 --> 00:13:18,730 No. I'm doing this because I'm an eccentric millionaire. 135 00:13:19,490 --> 00:13:20,770 There's a job for six men 136 00:13:20,860 --> 00:13:23,430 watching over a village just south of the border. 137 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:26,230 How big's the opposition? 138 00:13:27,490 --> 00:13:28,940 Thirty guns. 139 00:13:29,990 --> 00:13:32,690 I admire your notion of fair odds, mister. 140 00:13:33,030 --> 00:13:35,350 I admire your notion of fair odds, mister. 141 00:13:35,990 --> 00:13:39,820 Harry tells me you faced bigger odds in the Travis County War. 142 00:13:47,570 --> 00:13:49,940 - Who's your favourite? - Steve McQueen. 143 00:13:50,030 --> 00:13:53,230 I like Charles Bronson. Maybe someday we'll go to Iran. 144 00:13:53,360 --> 00:13:54,480 Why? 145 00:13:54,570 --> 00:13:56,190 Maybe we'd see him somewhere. 146 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:57,520 I could get his autograph. 147 00:13:57,610 --> 00:13:59,900 - Charles Bronson's not Iranian. - He's not? 148 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,690 So why does he speak Farsi with an Iranian accent? 149 00:14:05,150 --> 00:14:07,190 Where are you going, faggots? 150 00:14:07,900 --> 00:14:09,440 What do you boys think: 151 00:14:09,820 --> 00:14:12,230 If I paid you to be my friends, 152 00:14:12,450 --> 00:14:15,810 would you really be my friends? Or would you be my servants? 153 00:14:16,110 --> 00:14:18,320 Gee, Assef, if you were paying us, 154 00:14:19,030 --> 00:14:20,570 that would make us your servants! 155 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:23,390 So I guess Amir has no friends. 156 00:14:24,240 --> 00:14:25,940 We're not bothering you. 157 00:14:26,110 --> 00:14:27,190 Wrong. 158 00:14:27,610 --> 00:14:28,890 You are bothering me. 159 00:14:29,490 --> 00:14:31,890 Afghanistan is the land of the Pashtuns. 160 00:14:32,400 --> 00:14:33,480 We're the real Afghans. 161 00:14:34,030 --> 00:14:35,570 Not this flat-nose Hazara. 162 00:14:35,740 --> 00:14:39,190 His people pollute our homeland. They dirty our blood. 163 00:14:39,400 --> 00:14:41,890 If idiots like you and your father 164 00:14:42,070 --> 00:14:46,060 didn't take these people in, we'd be rid of them. 165 00:14:47,240 --> 00:14:48,730 Please leave us alone, Agha. 166 00:14:52,360 --> 00:14:54,350 Put it down, you motherless Hazara. 167 00:14:55,070 --> 00:14:57,140 Leave us in peace. 168 00:14:57,950 --> 00:14:59,320 Maybe you didn't notice, 169 00:14:59,450 --> 00:15:01,650 but there are three of us, and two of you. 170 00:15:02,030 --> 00:15:05,560 And maybe you didn't notice that I'm the one holding the slingshot. 171 00:15:10,900 --> 00:15:11,980 Forget it. 172 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,390 We'll deal with these faggots later. 173 00:15:22,950 --> 00:15:25,480 - What's this? - Rahim Khan left it for you. 174 00:15:30,990 --> 00:15:32,360 He liked it. 175 00:15:32,450 --> 00:15:33,730 Liked what? 176 00:15:33,990 --> 00:15:35,480 My story! 177 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,530 Well of course he liked it. You tell great stories. 178 00:15:40,860 --> 00:15:42,850 "Bravo," he wrote. Bravo! 179 00:15:43,450 --> 00:15:44,520 Bravo? 180 00:15:44,650 --> 00:15:47,060 Do you know what "bravo" means? 181 00:15:47,780 --> 00:15:49,900 It's Italian for genius. 182 00:15:51,070 --> 00:15:52,230 What's the story about? 183 00:15:53,150 --> 00:15:55,900 It's about a man who finds a magic cup. 184 00:15:55,990 --> 00:15:58,560 And he learns that if he weeps into the cup, 185 00:15:58,650 --> 00:16:00,360 his tears turn to pearls. 186 00:16:00,740 --> 00:16:03,020 He's very poor, you know? 187 00:16:03,240 --> 00:16:05,900 And, at the end of the story, he's sitting on a mountain of pearls 188 00:16:06,110 --> 00:16:09,560 with a bloody knife in his hand and his dead wife in his arms. 189 00:16:11,110 --> 00:16:13,730 - So he killed her? - Yes, Hassan. 190 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:17,560 So that he'd cry and get rich. 191 00:16:17,950 --> 00:16:20,230 Yes, you're very quick. 192 00:16:21,990 --> 00:16:23,100 What? 193 00:16:23,200 --> 00:16:25,230 Nothing, Amir agha. Are you done with breakfast? 194 00:16:25,650 --> 00:16:26,900 What? 195 00:16:27,450 --> 00:16:31,060 Well, will you permit me to ask a question about the story? 196 00:16:31,400 --> 00:16:32,730 Of course. 197 00:16:33,150 --> 00:16:35,730 Why did the man have to kill his wife? 198 00:16:36,450 --> 00:16:39,810 Because each of his tears becomes a pearl. 199 00:16:40,860 --> 00:16:44,230 Yes, but why couldn't he just smell an onion? 200 00:17:00,570 --> 00:17:03,320 The mullahs at school say drinking is a sin. 201 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,950 They say drinkers will pay when the Reckoning comes. 202 00:17:07,360 --> 00:17:09,900 Do you want to know what your father thinks about sin? 203 00:17:10,320 --> 00:17:11,400 Yes. 204 00:17:11,860 --> 00:17:13,240 Then I'll tell you. 205 00:17:14,780 --> 00:17:17,400 But first understand this and understand it now: 206 00:17:17,490 --> 00:17:19,730 You'll never learn anything of value from those bearded idiots. 207 00:17:20,820 --> 00:17:22,400 You mean the mullahs? 208 00:17:22,490 --> 00:17:25,060 I piss on the beards of those self-righteous monkeys. 209 00:17:25,530 --> 00:17:28,730 They do nothing but thumb their prayer beads and recite a book 210 00:17:28,820 --> 00:17:32,100 written in a tongue they don't even understand. 211 00:17:32,570 --> 00:17:35,400 There is only one sin. And that is theft. 212 00:17:35,740 --> 00:17:38,690 Every other sin is a variation of theft. Do you understand that? 213 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:42,570 No, Baba jan. 214 00:17:43,450 --> 00:17:45,320 When you kill a man, 215 00:17:45,820 --> 00:17:47,890 you steal a life. 216 00:17:48,360 --> 00:17:51,150 You steal his wife's right to her husband, 217 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,990 his children's right to a father. 218 00:17:55,030 --> 00:17:58,530 When you tell a lie, you steal someone's right to the truth. 219 00:18:01,070 --> 00:18:03,230 There is no act more wretched than stealing. 220 00:18:03,700 --> 00:18:05,270 Do you see? 221 00:18:07,570 --> 00:18:09,030 Yes, Baba. 222 00:18:11,070 --> 00:18:12,150 Good. 223 00:18:12,950 --> 00:18:14,900 All this talk of sinning is making me thirsty. 224 00:18:21,650 --> 00:18:23,400 Hassan! Hassan! 225 00:18:25,030 --> 00:18:26,900 Go, he's calling you. 226 00:18:31,610 --> 00:18:33,070 Happy Birthday. 227 00:18:35,240 --> 00:18:37,390 It's made in America. 228 00:18:38,860 --> 00:18:40,730 I figured, if you're going to be my bodyguard, 229 00:18:40,820 --> 00:18:42,310 you need a proper weapon. 230 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:44,740 Thank you, Amir agha. 231 00:18:46,110 --> 00:18:47,690 Come on, let's go. 232 00:19:11,530 --> 00:19:12,770 What does it say? 233 00:19:13,950 --> 00:19:16,430 Amir and Hassan, the Sultans of Kabul. 234 00:19:17,110 --> 00:19:18,940 The Sultans of Kabul! 235 00:19:19,610 --> 00:19:21,270 You want a story? 236 00:19:22,070 --> 00:19:23,440 Rostam and Sohrab. 237 00:19:24,150 --> 00:19:27,520 Not them again. I've read you that one fifty times. 238 00:19:27,650 --> 00:19:29,610 How about Rudabeh? 239 00:19:30,570 --> 00:19:32,560 It's your book, Amir agha. 240 00:19:34,900 --> 00:19:36,070 All right, 241 00:19:36,150 --> 00:19:39,900 Rostam and Sohrab. It's your birthday. 242 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:11,440 Your dad got a new car? 243 00:20:11,990 --> 00:20:14,230 Isn't that the car they drive in Bullitt? 244 00:20:16,820 --> 00:20:17,930 Steve McQueen! 245 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:23,650 I heard it was someone's birthday. 246 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:26,770 It's your day, Hassan. Why don't you sit up front? 247 00:20:29,110 --> 00:20:30,770 Are you ready for your birthday present? 248 00:20:31,280 --> 00:20:32,940 - Is it a drawing book? - Better! 249 00:20:33,110 --> 00:20:34,980 - A toy gun? - Better! 250 00:21:12,030 --> 00:21:13,400 Uncle Saifo! 251 00:21:14,860 --> 00:21:16,770 My brother! It's been too long. 252 00:21:17,530 --> 00:21:18,940 Everyone good? 253 00:21:21,490 --> 00:21:23,770 It's his birthday, he can have any kite he wants. 254 00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:27,440 Here they are. 255 00:21:27,780 --> 00:21:30,650 Take your pick. 256 00:21:46,030 --> 00:21:47,490 I want that one. 257 00:21:48,650 --> 00:21:49,730 We'll take it. 258 00:21:50,650 --> 00:21:51,770 A good choice. 259 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:54,780 I was just lucky that time. 260 00:21:54,950 --> 00:21:58,060 It wasn't luck, Amir agha. You're better than him. 261 00:22:03,150 --> 00:22:05,140 I know you're going to win. 262 00:22:06,610 --> 00:22:08,900 You have too much faith in me. 263 00:22:10,110 --> 00:22:12,230 Ali made the cauliflower especially for you. 264 00:22:12,400 --> 00:22:14,440 Yes. Every time I come, he makes the cauliflower. 265 00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:16,980 I know. You come here too often. 266 00:22:19,490 --> 00:22:20,940 The tournament's tomorrow? 267 00:22:21,320 --> 00:22:23,190 Are you and Hassan ready? 268 00:22:23,360 --> 00:22:25,020 We've been practising. 269 00:22:25,490 --> 00:22:29,100 Did I ever tell you about the year I won? 270 00:22:29,280 --> 00:22:33,400 I'm fairly sure you told everyone in Kabul about the year you won. 271 00:22:34,150 --> 00:22:36,440 Fourteen kites I cut down. 272 00:22:36,610 --> 00:22:38,940 I think that's still a record. 273 00:22:39,450 --> 00:22:41,270 Yes, yes, yes. Eat. 274 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,570 I think you're going to make Agha sahib very proud today. 275 00:23:27,700 --> 00:23:29,160 You think so? 276 00:23:29,250 --> 00:23:30,320 Inshallah. 277 00:23:30,410 --> 00:23:31,570 Inshallah. 278 00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,080 It's really crowded. 279 00:23:59,250 --> 00:24:01,200 I'm not sure it's the best day to fly a kite. 280 00:24:01,290 --> 00:24:02,530 Why? 281 00:24:02,620 --> 00:24:05,030 It's a beautiful day. 282 00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:08,610 It's the two of us against all of Kabul. 283 00:24:09,870 --> 00:24:12,870 I admire your notion of fair odds, mister. 284 00:24:13,750 --> 00:24:15,120 Let's fly. 285 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:26,610 Put down the spool. 286 00:24:26,950 --> 00:24:28,700 Take it! 287 00:25:18,450 --> 00:25:19,990 Take it from under. 288 00:25:25,450 --> 00:25:26,530 Okay, I'm under. 289 00:25:42,290 --> 00:25:46,610 We cut him! We cut him! 290 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:13,570 Amir agha! 291 00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:20,700 Go a little to your right. 292 00:26:44,370 --> 00:26:46,240 We cut him! We cut him! 293 00:26:46,410 --> 00:26:48,070 They could break your record. 294 00:26:48,250 --> 00:26:49,570 Let's see. 295 00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,450 Hold the spool right. 296 00:27:07,660 --> 00:27:08,820 Take him, Omar! 297 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:13,990 Omar! Omar! Omar! 298 00:27:21,580 --> 00:27:23,160 Omar! 299 00:27:35,870 --> 00:27:37,700 I cut him! 300 00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:40,500 Victory! Victory! 301 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:49,400 - How many has he cut? - I've counted twelve. 302 00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:52,610 I think he wants Baba's record. 303 00:27:52,910 --> 00:27:55,240 We can't let that happen. 304 00:28:02,830 --> 00:28:05,120 Last one, Omar agha. 305 00:28:24,370 --> 00:28:26,030 Pull your string forward. 306 00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:28,110 Cut him! 307 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,400 It's just the two of them now. 308 00:28:54,250 --> 00:28:56,200 Bravo, Amir agha! 309 00:28:56,370 --> 00:28:57,480 You cut him! 310 00:28:57,660 --> 00:29:00,740 We won! We won! 311 00:29:09,830 --> 00:29:12,400 Amir, I'm going to run that blue kite for you. 312 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:14,650 Hassan! Come back with it! 313 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,400 For you, a thousand times over! 314 00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:37,190 What am I supposed to do with this? You're the reason I got cut! 315 00:30:02,750 --> 00:30:05,580 Have you seen a Hazara boy come this way? 316 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:07,200 Wearing a red chapan. 317 00:30:07,580 --> 00:30:11,240 I saw a boy running that way. He had a kite in his hand. 318 00:30:12,950 --> 00:30:15,870 - They've probably caught him by now. - Who? 319 00:30:16,290 --> 00:30:18,780 The big boys chasing him. 320 00:30:42,620 --> 00:30:44,330 Where's your slingshot, Hazara? 321 00:30:45,910 --> 00:30:48,030 You don't look so brave today. 322 00:30:49,620 --> 00:30:53,280 But I'm in a mood to forgive. What do you say to that, boys? 323 00:30:54,290 --> 00:30:55,660 Very generous. 324 00:30:55,830 --> 00:30:58,230 Especially after the rude manners he showed last time. 325 00:30:59,120 --> 00:31:01,240 Forgiven. It's done. 326 00:31:04,750 --> 00:31:07,360 Of course, nothing is free in this world. 327 00:31:07,450 --> 00:31:09,200 My pardon comes with a small price. 328 00:31:09,830 --> 00:31:11,290 Nothing is free. 329 00:31:11,830 --> 00:31:13,570 You're a lucky Hazara. 330 00:31:13,870 --> 00:31:17,370 Because, today, it's only going to cost you that kite. 331 00:31:19,330 --> 00:31:20,660 Fair deal. 332 00:31:20,910 --> 00:31:24,990 - What do you think, boys? - More than fair. 333 00:31:26,370 --> 00:31:30,410 Amir agha won the tournament and I ran this kite for him. 334 00:31:31,410 --> 00:31:32,910 This is his. 335 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:35,160 Loyal Hazara. 336 00:31:35,500 --> 00:31:36,740 Loyal dog. 337 00:31:37,410 --> 00:31:41,950 Before you sacrifice yourself for him, think about this, Hazara: 338 00:31:42,410 --> 00:31:44,740 Would he do the same for you? 339 00:31:44,910 --> 00:31:46,240 Have you ever wondered why 340 00:31:46,410 --> 00:31:48,570 he only plays with you when no one else is around? 341 00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:52,410 I said, "Why," Hazara! 342 00:31:53,410 --> 00:31:56,690 Because, to him, you're nothing but an ugly pet. 343 00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:59,280 Something he can play with when he's bored. 344 00:31:59,620 --> 00:32:01,690 Something he can kick when he's angry. 345 00:32:01,950 --> 00:32:03,610 Amir agha and I are friends. 346 00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:04,730 Friends? 347 00:32:04,830 --> 00:32:05,910 You fool. Enough of this. 348 00:32:06,000 --> 00:32:07,160 Give us the kite. 349 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:10,610 Last chance. 350 00:32:12,750 --> 00:32:14,400 As you wish. 351 00:32:15,750 --> 00:32:17,030 Keep it. 352 00:32:17,620 --> 00:32:21,700 So it will always remind you of what I'm about to do to you. 353 00:32:21,790 --> 00:32:22,900 Nothing is free. 354 00:32:36,250 --> 00:32:38,240 He's just a servant's son. 355 00:32:38,450 --> 00:32:41,030 I'm not sure, Assef. My father says it's wrong. 356 00:32:41,330 --> 00:32:42,740 Your father's a Communist. 357 00:32:44,370 --> 00:32:46,910 And there's nothing wrong about teaching this donkey a lesson. 358 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,900 Just hold him down. 359 00:33:16,750 --> 00:33:18,070 Let's get out of here. 360 00:33:54,410 --> 00:33:57,110 Where were you? I was looking for you. 361 00:33:57,250 --> 00:33:58,700 Let's go, Agha sahib will worry. 362 00:34:16,290 --> 00:34:17,370 Good job. 363 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:21,120 Come here. 364 00:34:31,620 --> 00:34:32,700 Well done. 365 00:34:58,620 --> 00:35:00,030 Where's Hassan? 366 00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,200 He went back to sleep. 367 00:35:01,500 --> 00:35:04,780 The last few weeks, all he wants to do is sleep. 368 00:35:04,870 --> 00:35:06,860 After chores he just crawls under his blanket. 369 00:35:08,290 --> 00:35:09,990 Can I ask you something? 370 00:35:12,370 --> 00:35:14,200 Did something happen, Amir agha? 371 00:35:14,750 --> 00:35:16,650 Something he's not telling me? 372 00:35:16,790 --> 00:35:19,900 How should I know? Maybe he's sick. 373 00:35:20,450 --> 00:35:22,440 People get sick, you know. 374 00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,400 The mullahs want to rule our souls 375 00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,450 and the Communists tell us we don't have any. 376 00:35:44,200 --> 00:35:47,650 More importantly, El Cid is playing. We could go tomorrow. 377 00:35:47,750 --> 00:35:50,450 Tell Hassan to come with us? 378 00:35:51,950 --> 00:35:53,120 He's not feeling well. 379 00:35:54,120 --> 00:35:55,990 Really? What's wrong with him? 380 00:35:56,870 --> 00:35:58,200 He's got a cold or something. 381 00:35:58,870 --> 00:36:01,280 Ali says he's sleeping it off. 382 00:36:01,790 --> 00:36:03,780 I haven't seen you two playing together in weeks. 383 00:36:03,870 --> 00:36:05,280 What happened? 384 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,530 Nothing. He's just been a little sick. 385 00:36:10,040 --> 00:36:11,490 Hassan never gets sick. 386 00:36:11,580 --> 00:36:14,250 Whatever's going on, you should deal with it before too long. 387 00:36:14,870 --> 00:36:16,580 Take care not to let these things fester. 388 00:36:16,750 --> 00:36:19,150 Time will only make it worse. 389 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:40,660 What are you reading? 390 00:36:41,750 --> 00:36:45,030 It's for little kids. I just... I'm trying to learn. 391 00:36:47,580 --> 00:36:50,030 I'd rather hear one of your stories. 392 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:52,610 I'm done making up stories. 393 00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:54,160 Why? 394 00:36:54,410 --> 00:36:56,450 Because they're stupid. 395 00:36:56,910 --> 00:37:00,410 I don't think they're stupid. I love your stories. 396 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:05,070 What would you do if I hit you with this? 397 00:37:08,910 --> 00:37:10,070 What would you do? 398 00:37:11,580 --> 00:37:13,040 Hit me back! 399 00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:15,990 Hit me back! 400 00:37:16,750 --> 00:37:17,860 Hit me back! 401 00:37:18,580 --> 00:37:19,820 Hit me back. 402 00:37:24,660 --> 00:37:26,820 You're a coward. 403 00:37:47,910 --> 00:37:49,740 Blood's good for the trees. 404 00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:52,610 Come on, birthday boy. Let's go inside. 405 00:37:54,410 --> 00:37:56,150 Ali, is everything ready? 406 00:37:56,250 --> 00:37:59,160 Don't worry, it will be soon. 407 00:38:01,580 --> 00:38:04,610 - Move it back a little. - Yes, of course. 408 00:38:13,500 --> 00:38:18,200 Have you ever thought about getting new servants? 409 00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:26,900 Why would I want to do that? 410 00:38:27,410 --> 00:38:30,860 I guess you wouldn't. It was just a question. 411 00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,370 I grew up with Ali. 412 00:38:33,450 --> 00:38:37,580 My father took him in, loved him like his own son. 413 00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,870 Forty years he's been with my family. Forty goddamn years. 414 00:38:43,580 --> 00:38:46,860 And you think I'm just going to throw him out? 415 00:38:48,540 --> 00:38:51,780 I've never laid a hand on you, 416 00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,740 but you ever say that again... 417 00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:58,370 You bring me shame. 418 00:38:58,950 --> 00:39:00,660 And, Hassan... 419 00:39:01,700 --> 00:39:03,780 Hassan's not going anywhere. 420 00:39:03,870 --> 00:39:05,110 Do you understand? 421 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,530 I said, do you understand? 422 00:39:11,580 --> 00:39:12,950 Yes, Baba. 423 00:39:16,750 --> 00:39:19,230 You bring me shame. 424 00:40:06,330 --> 00:40:09,030 Massoud jan, how are you? 425 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:10,910 - Welcome. - Happy birthday. 426 00:40:14,870 --> 00:40:15,980 Welcome. 427 00:40:17,450 --> 00:40:19,240 Hello, Amir jan. Happy birthday. 428 00:40:19,540 --> 00:40:21,200 Hello, Amir jan. How are you? 429 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,240 It is modest and not worthy of you. 430 00:40:29,330 --> 00:40:31,150 Happy birthday. 431 00:40:32,700 --> 00:40:35,700 Hassan said your copy was getting old, missing some pages. 432 00:40:36,540 --> 00:40:38,110 Thank you. 433 00:40:38,830 --> 00:40:39,910 Amir. 434 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,900 Happy birthday, Amir jan. 435 00:40:45,540 --> 00:40:46,910 Happy birthday. 436 00:40:47,410 --> 00:40:50,910 - What a splendid suit. - Great party, Amir. 437 00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:55,370 Aren't you going to thank Assef? 438 00:40:57,370 --> 00:40:58,400 Thank you. 439 00:41:03,870 --> 00:41:04,950 Please, enjoy. 440 00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:21,030 Amir jan. 441 00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,530 Shouldn't you be entertaining your guests? 442 00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,820 I didn't know you drank. 443 00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:33,860 Turns out I do. 444 00:41:34,540 --> 00:41:37,650 But only on the most important occasions. 445 00:41:40,580 --> 00:41:46,690 You know you can tell me anything you want. Anytime. 446 00:41:47,620 --> 00:41:49,240 I know. 447 00:41:51,540 --> 00:41:54,200 Here, I almost forgot. 448 00:41:56,200 --> 00:41:58,280 For your stories. 449 00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,120 Come. You're missing your party. 450 00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:14,310 Baba. 451 00:43:15,330 --> 00:43:16,950 Have you seen my watch anywhere? 452 00:43:17,450 --> 00:43:19,190 The one I just bought you? 453 00:43:19,330 --> 00:43:21,150 Don't tell me you already lost it. 454 00:43:21,780 --> 00:43:24,780 No. I know I had it in my room. 455 00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:27,110 I'm sure it'll turn up somewhere. 456 00:44:10,910 --> 00:44:11,940 What's wrong? 457 00:44:15,950 --> 00:44:16,980 Ali. 458 00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:19,110 When you finish your work, come inside with Hassan. 459 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:20,780 Yes, Agha sahib. 460 00:44:28,660 --> 00:44:31,110 Did you steal Amir's watch, Hassan? 461 00:44:37,910 --> 00:44:39,570 Yes. 462 00:44:44,620 --> 00:44:45,940 I forgive you. 463 00:44:48,620 --> 00:44:50,190 We're leaving, Agha sahib. 464 00:44:50,700 --> 00:44:51,860 What? 465 00:44:52,620 --> 00:44:54,360 We can't live here any more. 466 00:44:55,330 --> 00:44:57,610 But I forgive him. Didn't you hear me, Ali? 467 00:44:59,280 --> 00:45:01,900 Life here is impossible for us now, Agha sahib. 468 00:45:02,030 --> 00:45:03,280 We're leaving. 469 00:45:03,370 --> 00:45:04,940 I don't care about the watch. 470 00:45:05,030 --> 00:45:06,990 I don't understand why you're doing this. 471 00:45:07,240 --> 00:45:10,690 I'm sorry, Agha sahib, but our bags are already packed. 472 00:45:10,780 --> 00:45:13,270 We've made our decision. 473 00:45:13,490 --> 00:45:14,690 Ali. 474 00:45:14,950 --> 00:45:16,440 Haven't I provided for you? 475 00:45:16,740 --> 00:45:18,240 Haven't I been good to you and Hassan? 476 00:45:18,660 --> 00:45:20,610 At least tell me why. 477 00:45:20,870 --> 00:45:22,490 I forbid you to do this! 478 00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:24,200 Do you hear me? 479 00:45:24,530 --> 00:45:26,440 I forbid you! 480 00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:33,990 Respectfully, you can't forbid me anything, Agha sahib. 481 00:45:34,830 --> 00:45:37,610 We don't work for you any more. 482 00:46:12,950 --> 00:46:16,280 Soviet Invasion December 1979 483 00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:21,610 Pack a bag. Only what you need. 484 00:46:21,700 --> 00:46:22,730 Hurry up! 485 00:46:24,700 --> 00:46:27,950 - They'll come for me. - We don't know that. 486 00:46:28,030 --> 00:46:31,700 Read your history, my friend. By the time we know it, it will be too late. 487 00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,860 You know how I am. You know how I talk. 488 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,940 Everyone in Kabul has heard me cursing the Communists. 489 00:46:44,330 --> 00:46:48,190 Will you watch over the house for me? We'll be back when the Russians leave. 490 00:46:48,660 --> 00:46:50,530 What if they don't leave? 491 00:46:50,620 --> 00:46:54,400 Everyone leaves. This country is not kind to invaders. 492 00:46:57,740 --> 00:46:59,280 And you, my friend? 493 00:46:59,830 --> 00:47:01,110 Where will you go? 494 00:47:01,950 --> 00:47:02,980 Pakistan, first. 495 00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:06,120 After that, wherever is safest for the boy. 496 00:47:06,450 --> 00:47:08,660 The smugglers want five thousand a head 497 00:47:08,990 --> 00:47:11,280 for safe passage to Pakistan. 498 00:47:11,780 --> 00:47:14,240 I'm fairly sure they won't take cheques. 499 00:47:15,370 --> 00:47:17,610 What about a Mustang? 500 00:48:29,950 --> 00:48:33,860 He wants a half hour with the lady in the back of the truck. 501 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:36,270 What? 502 00:48:36,780 --> 00:48:37,860 No. 503 00:48:38,740 --> 00:48:39,990 Brother. 504 00:48:40,450 --> 00:48:42,360 Please ask mister soldier sahib to show a little mercy. 505 00:48:42,990 --> 00:48:44,900 Maybe he has a wife, too. 506 00:48:45,620 --> 00:48:47,610 It's his price for letting us pass. 507 00:48:49,740 --> 00:48:51,860 I want you to ask this man something. 508 00:48:51,950 --> 00:48:54,360 Ask him where his shame is. 509 00:49:05,240 --> 00:49:07,280 He says, there is no shame in war. 510 00:49:08,080 --> 00:49:11,740 Tell him he is wrong. War doesn't negate decency. 511 00:49:16,370 --> 00:49:17,400 What did he say? 512 00:49:17,490 --> 00:49:19,780 He says he'd enjoy putting a bullet in you, 513 00:49:19,870 --> 00:49:21,990 almost as much as he'd enjoy her. 514 00:49:23,030 --> 00:49:25,950 I'll take a thousand of his bullets before I let this indecency take place. 515 00:49:26,030 --> 00:49:29,150 - Baba, please, he'll shoot you. - Have I taught you nothing? 516 00:49:29,950 --> 00:49:32,870 Tell him he'd better kill me good with the first shot. 517 00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:34,310 Because if I don't go down, 518 00:49:34,620 --> 00:49:36,610 I'm tearing him to pieces, goddamn his father! 519 00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,270 You are very kind. 520 00:50:27,280 --> 00:50:29,570 It's not worthy of a thank you. 521 00:50:54,410 --> 00:50:56,900 Get out. Come on, get out. 522 00:50:57,410 --> 00:50:59,810 Keep it moving. Keep it moving. 523 00:51:00,950 --> 00:51:02,320 Why did you stop? 524 00:51:02,450 --> 00:51:04,770 We can't get you across the border in that truck. 525 00:51:05,530 --> 00:51:07,940 We don't have enough money for all the Russians. 526 00:51:08,120 --> 00:51:10,870 - So what are we doing? - Go climb into that vehicle. 527 00:51:13,620 --> 00:51:15,240 You're joking. 528 00:51:15,620 --> 00:51:17,490 Your choice, Agha sahib. 529 00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:37,740 Climb up quickly. 530 00:51:43,870 --> 00:51:45,740 Turn around and go down. 531 00:51:50,030 --> 00:51:52,070 I'm with you. Go. 532 00:52:01,950 --> 00:52:03,610 You see it? 533 00:52:03,950 --> 00:52:05,410 Yes. 534 00:52:05,780 --> 00:52:08,320 Don't be afraid. I'm right here with you. 535 00:52:08,530 --> 00:52:10,770 I can't breathe, Baba. 536 00:52:11,450 --> 00:52:14,280 Think of something else. Think of a poem. 537 00:52:14,910 --> 00:52:16,070 Rumi? 538 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,240 You've memorised some, haven't you? 539 00:52:19,410 --> 00:52:20,690 I want to hear one. 540 00:52:22,450 --> 00:52:26,280 "If we come to sleep we are His drowsy ones 541 00:52:26,660 --> 00:52:30,270 "And if we come to wake we are in His hands" 542 00:52:30,950 --> 00:52:31,980 Keep going. 543 00:52:32,780 --> 00:52:36,280 "If we come to weeping we are His cloud full of raindrops 544 00:52:36,580 --> 00:52:39,570 "And if we come to laughing we are His lightning in that moment" 545 00:52:40,120 --> 00:52:41,200 Good job. 546 00:52:41,740 --> 00:52:44,780 "If we come to anger and battle it is the reflection of His wrath 547 00:52:45,450 --> 00:52:48,480 "And if we come to peace and pardon it is the reflection of His love 548 00:52:49,740 --> 00:52:53,160 "Who are we in this complicated world?" 549 00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,080 Fremont, California 550 00:53:22,050 --> 00:53:23,540 A pack of those. 551 00:53:26,840 --> 00:53:29,000 - Is that your car? - Yeah. 552 00:53:33,090 --> 00:53:35,050 - Beautiful car. - Thanks. 553 00:53:47,220 --> 00:53:49,590 Richard Hidalgo. 554 00:53:55,630 --> 00:53:57,750 Erin Hill. 555 00:54:02,880 --> 00:54:05,210 Denise Hawking. 556 00:54:09,380 --> 00:54:12,050 Damon Hooper. 557 00:54:17,300 --> 00:54:19,620 June Kitagawa. 558 00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,210 - Hi. - Hello. 559 00:54:33,880 --> 00:54:36,800 - Tonight I'm very happy. - Well, that's good. 560 00:54:37,220 --> 00:54:40,460 - Tonight I drink with my son. - Hi. 561 00:54:40,550 --> 00:54:43,380 How are you, my friend? Let's have a drink with us. 562 00:54:43,470 --> 00:54:45,340 - What you like to drink? - Scotch. 563 00:54:45,420 --> 00:54:47,880 - Three Scotch, please. - I'll have a beer instead. Thanks. 564 00:54:47,970 --> 00:54:49,710 - Budweiser? - Sure. 565 00:54:50,010 --> 00:54:51,290 Please. 566 00:54:54,470 --> 00:54:57,250 My son, the college graduate. 567 00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:01,250 - It's just community college. - It's college. 568 00:55:02,380 --> 00:55:04,840 And someday, Dr. Amir! 569 00:55:06,220 --> 00:55:08,750 - You know I want to write. - Write? 570 00:55:09,130 --> 00:55:11,090 I don't want to be a doctor. 571 00:55:12,550 --> 00:55:13,750 Cheers. 572 00:55:19,220 --> 00:55:20,790 One more, sir. 573 00:55:21,670 --> 00:55:24,290 So instead of being doctor and saving lives, 574 00:55:24,380 --> 00:55:26,040 he wants make up stories. 575 00:55:28,380 --> 00:55:30,040 And for money, 576 00:55:30,670 --> 00:55:33,210 you can work at the gas station with me. 577 00:55:33,550 --> 00:55:36,120 We'll put your diploma on the wall. 578 00:55:37,050 --> 00:55:38,870 Whatever you think. 579 00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:45,590 Beautiful! Beautiful shot! You see that shot? 580 00:55:46,970 --> 00:55:49,500 A pitcher of beer for gentlemen, please. 581 00:55:50,510 --> 00:55:53,380 Cheers. My son, he graduates college today. 582 00:55:53,470 --> 00:55:55,790 - Way to go, man. Congratulations. - Thank you. 583 00:55:57,380 --> 00:55:59,040 Fuck the Russia! 584 00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:02,550 - Fuck the Russia! - Fuck Russia. 585 00:56:09,380 --> 00:56:12,380 I wish Hassan had been with us today. 586 00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:15,630 This would make him happy. 587 00:56:19,260 --> 00:56:22,040 - Four, so that's $6. - Okay. 588 00:56:31,880 --> 00:56:33,210 Amir jan. 589 00:56:34,260 --> 00:56:36,210 This is General Sahib, Mr lqbal Taheri. 590 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:38,960 He was a decorated general in Kabul. 591 00:56:39,050 --> 00:56:40,920 Such a lofty introduction. 592 00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:43,620 - Salaam, my child. - Salaam, General Sahib. 593 00:56:44,380 --> 00:56:46,010 Amir is going to be a great writer. 594 00:56:47,220 --> 00:56:48,670 It is God's will. 595 00:56:49,090 --> 00:56:51,330 Will you be writing about our country? 596 00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:53,080 History, perhaps? 597 00:56:54,170 --> 00:56:56,050 I write fiction. 598 00:56:57,510 --> 00:56:58,790 A storyteller. 599 00:56:59,300 --> 00:57:04,340 Well, people do need their stories to divert them occasionally. 600 00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:08,790 - Father, you forgot your tea. - You are too kind, my dear. 601 00:57:10,380 --> 00:57:12,210 My daughter, Soraya jan. 602 00:57:14,590 --> 00:57:16,750 Well, time to go set up. 603 00:57:17,340 --> 00:57:19,710 Best of luck with the writing. 604 00:57:20,550 --> 00:57:21,830 - Until later. - Goodbye. 605 00:57:27,630 --> 00:57:28,910 What? 606 00:57:29,340 --> 00:57:31,080 She has made an impression on you? 607 00:57:31,380 --> 00:57:33,290 Please, Baba. 608 00:57:52,300 --> 00:57:53,540 What are you writing? 609 00:57:54,300 --> 00:57:55,710 A story. 610 00:57:59,300 --> 00:58:01,170 Write well. 611 00:58:08,090 --> 00:58:10,920 - How much? - $160. 612 00:58:11,010 --> 00:58:12,420 Not bad. 613 00:58:13,260 --> 00:58:15,920 - You want a Coke? - Sure. Be careful. 614 00:58:16,720 --> 00:58:17,830 Of what? 615 00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:21,370 The General is a Pashtun to the root. He has honour and pride. 616 00:58:22,090 --> 00:58:24,080 I was only going to get us Cokes. 617 00:58:24,220 --> 00:58:25,760 Just don't embarrass me. 618 00:58:26,220 --> 00:58:27,920 That's all I ask. 619 00:58:28,590 --> 00:58:29,920 I won't. 620 00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:41,000 - Hi. - Hi. 621 00:58:41,090 --> 00:58:44,420 - Is General Sahib here today? - Yeah, he went that way. 622 00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,920 Will you tell him that I stopped by to pay my respects? 623 00:58:49,010 --> 00:58:50,910 I will. 624 00:58:51,010 --> 00:58:54,420 Thank you. Oh, and my name's Amir. 625 00:58:54,510 --> 00:58:58,670 In case you need to know, so you can tell him that I stopped by. 626 00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:00,550 To pay my respects. 627 00:59:03,670 --> 00:59:07,210 - I'll go now. Sorry to disturb you. - Oh, no, no, you didn't. 628 00:59:08,840 --> 00:59:10,380 Good. 629 00:59:13,300 --> 00:59:15,370 Can I ask what you're reading? 630 00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:18,620 Have you read it? 631 00:59:19,340 --> 00:59:21,000 It's a sad story. 632 00:59:22,380 --> 00:59:24,040 I heard you write. 633 00:59:27,380 --> 00:59:29,950 Would you like to read one of my stories? 634 00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,250 I'd like that. 635 00:59:37,010 --> 00:59:38,290 Great. 636 01:00:17,630 --> 01:00:20,420 - How much for this? - $5. 637 01:00:21,090 --> 01:00:24,170 - I'll give you three. - Okay. 638 01:00:24,970 --> 01:00:26,420 Thank you. 639 01:00:27,470 --> 01:00:30,000 - You're not much of a haggler. - I know. 640 01:00:31,420 --> 01:00:33,500 I brought you something. 641 01:00:35,090 --> 01:00:37,660 - You remembered. - Of course. 642 01:00:38,970 --> 01:00:41,960 Our aspiring storyteller. What a pleasure. 643 01:00:50,630 --> 01:00:53,910 They say it will rain this week. 644 01:00:54,260 --> 01:00:56,300 Hard to believe, isn't it? 645 01:00:58,050 --> 01:00:59,460 You know, child, 646 01:01:00,260 --> 01:01:01,960 I've grown rather fond of you. 647 01:01:03,300 --> 01:01:05,090 You're a decent boy. 648 01:01:05,550 --> 01:01:11,300 But, sometimes, even decent boys need reminding. 649 01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:17,340 So it's my duty to remind you that you are among peers. 650 01:01:18,470 --> 01:01:21,300 Here, everyone is a storyteller. 651 01:01:22,010 --> 01:01:24,710 Do pass my respects to your father. 652 01:01:25,380 --> 01:01:26,630 Yes, of course. 653 01:01:28,630 --> 01:01:31,000 - For your granddaughter? - My granddaughter. 654 01:01:31,090 --> 01:01:33,500 - Impossible. - Thank you very much. 655 01:01:34,010 --> 01:01:35,420 Here you go. Thank You. 656 01:01:35,510 --> 01:01:37,630 - Have a good day. - You're welcome. 657 01:01:41,970 --> 01:01:43,210 Amir. 658 01:01:44,470 --> 01:01:45,920 What's wrong? 659 01:01:46,670 --> 01:01:47,920 Nothing. 660 01:01:49,220 --> 01:01:50,710 The General? 661 01:01:54,670 --> 01:01:56,080 You okay? 662 01:02:01,600 --> 01:02:02,800 You all right? 663 01:02:02,890 --> 01:02:03,970 Have you been coughing? 664 01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:05,590 Yes. 665 01:02:06,970 --> 01:02:08,510 Where are you from? 666 01:02:08,600 --> 01:02:12,130 I grew up in Michigan. Came out here for medical school. 667 01:02:12,220 --> 01:02:14,930 Once you get used to that California sunshine... 668 01:02:15,020 --> 01:02:17,300 - But your family? - My family. 669 01:02:17,390 --> 01:02:19,550 We're originally from Russia. 670 01:02:23,180 --> 01:02:24,430 I'm sorry. 671 01:02:42,970 --> 01:02:45,430 - How are you feeling? - The same. 672 01:02:46,680 --> 01:02:48,590 We have your results back. 673 01:02:53,600 --> 01:02:55,090 Wait outside for me. 674 01:03:13,970 --> 01:03:17,060 "The citizens of Kabul were skeletons now, 675 01:03:17,140 --> 01:03:19,810 skeletons selling naswar in the night market, 676 01:03:19,890 --> 01:03:22,510 skeletons drinking cups of strong tea, 677 01:03:23,180 --> 01:03:25,750 skeletons playing cards in the moonlight. 678 01:03:27,060 --> 01:03:31,260 They greeted me as I passed, teeth clacking together in their jaws. 679 01:03:32,970 --> 01:03:35,590 'Salaam, brother', they said. 680 01:03:37,350 --> 01:03:38,890 "Welcome home." 681 01:03:45,680 --> 01:03:47,390 It's sort of a work in progress. 682 01:03:49,470 --> 01:03:51,880 It's called The Sultans of Kabul. 683 01:03:53,020 --> 01:03:54,390 Good title. 684 01:03:56,220 --> 01:03:57,630 Keep going. 685 01:03:59,180 --> 01:04:00,640 That's the end. 686 01:04:01,850 --> 01:04:03,590 That's not an ending. 687 01:04:04,890 --> 01:04:07,130 It's my story. 688 01:04:07,220 --> 01:04:09,300 I get to end it how I want. 689 01:04:13,930 --> 01:04:18,140 I'm tired of these machines. Tomorrow I want you to take me home. 690 01:04:18,520 --> 01:04:19,890 But Dr Amani said... 691 01:04:19,970 --> 01:04:22,180 It's not Dr Amani's decision. 692 01:04:39,100 --> 01:04:41,010 How are you, my friend? 693 01:04:44,680 --> 01:04:47,550 You shouldn't have burdened yourselves. 694 01:04:48,020 --> 01:04:49,090 It's no burden. 695 01:04:50,470 --> 01:04:52,600 No burden at all. 696 01:04:52,680 --> 01:04:57,140 If you need anything, ask me like you'd ask a brother. 697 01:04:58,680 --> 01:05:00,260 Your coming here 698 01:05:01,430 --> 01:05:03,420 has brightened my eyes. 699 01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:06,880 What about you, Amir jan? 700 01:05:07,100 --> 01:05:09,050 Do you need anything? 701 01:05:10,180 --> 01:05:13,100 No, thank you, General Sahib. 702 01:05:15,350 --> 01:05:16,510 Excuse me. 703 01:05:18,890 --> 01:05:20,090 Thank you. 704 01:05:20,850 --> 01:05:23,720 Those are beautiful flowers. 705 01:05:44,930 --> 01:05:46,560 I'm really sorry. 706 01:05:49,680 --> 01:05:53,340 You better go back inside or your father will come after me. 707 01:05:57,180 --> 01:05:59,090 Your story made me cry. 708 01:06:01,850 --> 01:06:03,220 You read it? 709 01:06:05,520 --> 01:06:06,840 Our secret? 710 01:06:09,020 --> 01:06:10,090 Yeah. 711 01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:13,010 Our secret. 712 01:06:45,470 --> 01:06:47,760 Can I do anything else for you? 713 01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:52,050 No, child. Thank you. 714 01:06:53,850 --> 01:06:56,470 Then I wonder if you'd do something for me. 715 01:07:00,770 --> 01:07:03,090 I want you to go khastegari. 716 01:07:04,140 --> 01:07:07,300 I want you to ask General Taheri for his daughter's hand. 717 01:07:09,810 --> 01:07:11,470 Are you sure? 718 01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:16,470 More sure than I've ever been about anything. 719 01:07:19,970 --> 01:07:22,510 Then give me the phone and my address book. 720 01:07:24,600 --> 01:07:25,800 Now? 721 01:07:26,430 --> 01:07:28,140 Then when? 722 01:07:33,140 --> 01:07:35,050 Yes, much better. 723 01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:38,560 It was gracious of you to come. 724 01:07:39,470 --> 01:07:41,050 I called to ask, 725 01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:43,300 if you have time, 726 01:07:43,470 --> 01:07:45,180 if I may pay you a visit tomorrow morning. 727 01:07:45,680 --> 01:07:47,840 It's an honourable matter. 728 01:07:48,600 --> 01:07:49,630 Nine o'clock? 729 01:07:49,810 --> 01:07:50,920 That's just fine. 730 01:07:51,100 --> 01:07:52,130 Until then. 731 01:08:05,220 --> 01:08:06,250 Go home. 732 01:08:06,430 --> 01:08:08,090 I'll call you in an hour. 733 01:08:08,350 --> 01:08:10,750 Okay. Good luck. 734 01:08:16,810 --> 01:08:17,840 Hello? 735 01:08:17,930 --> 01:08:19,010 The General accepted. 736 01:08:19,100 --> 01:08:21,140 - He accepted? - Yes, he accepted. 737 01:08:21,220 --> 01:08:23,760 But Soraya jan wants to talk to you first. 738 01:08:24,310 --> 01:08:26,590 - About what? - About what? 739 01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:29,800 How do I know about what? She wants to talk to you. 740 01:08:29,970 --> 01:08:31,800 Okay. Okay. I'm on my way. 741 01:08:47,470 --> 01:08:50,970 How are you? Come inside and have some tea. 742 01:08:51,810 --> 01:08:54,130 He didn't come for tea. 743 01:08:54,600 --> 01:08:57,300 It doesn't matter, we're going out for a walk. 744 01:09:02,140 --> 01:09:04,210 You do want to get married? 745 01:09:05,470 --> 01:09:07,960 - To me, I mean. - Of course I do. 746 01:09:10,310 --> 01:09:13,180 It's just... I want to tell you something, 747 01:09:14,350 --> 01:09:16,390 something you need to know. 748 01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,930 I don't want us to start with secrets. 749 01:09:23,470 --> 01:09:25,960 We lived in Virginia before we came here. 750 01:09:26,060 --> 01:09:27,680 We left because 751 01:09:29,310 --> 01:09:31,630 I ran away with an Afghan man. 752 01:09:32,350 --> 01:09:35,470 I was 18. I guess I thought I was being rebellious. 753 01:09:36,310 --> 01:09:38,800 We lived together for almost a month. 754 01:09:40,020 --> 01:09:42,850 All the Afghans in Virginia were talking about it. 755 01:09:45,060 --> 01:09:46,340 My father eventually found us. 756 01:09:46,430 --> 01:09:50,300 He showed up at the door and he made me come home. 757 01:09:50,390 --> 01:09:53,920 I was hysterical, and I told him I hated him. 758 01:09:57,060 --> 01:09:59,760 We moved out to California a few weeks later. 759 01:10:00,310 --> 01:10:03,840 I didn't talk to my father for a very long time. And now... 760 01:10:05,270 --> 01:10:08,260 Now I feel like he's the reason why I'm here. 761 01:10:10,770 --> 01:10:13,090 Does what I told you bother you? 762 01:10:14,640 --> 01:10:15,970 A little. 763 01:10:17,470 --> 01:10:20,010 Does it bother you enough to change your mind? 764 01:10:21,100 --> 01:10:22,430 No. 765 01:10:23,810 --> 01:10:25,600 Not even close. 766 01:10:28,100 --> 01:10:30,170 I'd marry you tonight if I could. 767 01:12:00,530 --> 01:12:02,030 What do you see? 768 01:12:03,870 --> 01:12:05,660 The rest of my life. 769 01:13:00,910 --> 01:13:04,600 - They're so funny. - They were crazy. 770 01:13:06,950 --> 01:13:08,530 That's a funny picture. 771 01:13:10,070 --> 01:13:11,400 They're so cute. 772 01:13:12,570 --> 01:13:15,360 - Amir jan? - Right here, Baba. 773 01:13:15,450 --> 01:13:17,070 Help me to bed. 774 01:13:17,530 --> 01:13:18,780 Of course. 775 01:13:38,450 --> 01:13:41,120 I'll come back with your morphine and a glass of water. 776 01:13:41,700 --> 01:13:42,730 No. 777 01:13:43,200 --> 01:13:44,940 There is no pain tonight. 778 01:13:47,490 --> 01:13:49,530 Come here, my daughter. 779 01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:04,440 San Francisco 780 01:15:04,530 --> 01:15:06,320 It will not be easy. 781 01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,440 But you must come, Amir. 782 01:15:11,030 --> 01:15:12,190 All right. 783 01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:13,310 You're a good man. 784 01:15:13,410 --> 01:15:14,570 God willing. 785 01:15:14,870 --> 01:15:17,350 Goodbye. 786 01:15:33,990 --> 01:15:35,360 You all right? 787 01:15:36,870 --> 01:15:38,520 I have to go to Pakistan. 788 01:15:40,200 --> 01:15:41,480 Pakistan? 789 01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,200 Rahim Khan is very sick. 790 01:15:44,700 --> 01:15:47,020 Your father's friend? 791 01:15:47,120 --> 01:15:48,940 Is it safe right now? 792 01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:53,150 What about the book tour? 793 01:15:55,570 --> 01:15:58,530 There wouldn't be any books if not for Rahim Khan. 794 01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,190 Peshawar, Pakistan 795 01:16:09,500 --> 01:16:11,540 It's terrible what's happening in your country. 796 01:16:11,630 --> 01:16:14,460 Afghani people and Pakistani people, they are like brothers. 797 01:16:14,540 --> 01:16:16,250 Muslim have to help Muslim. 798 01:16:17,590 --> 01:16:20,370 They call this area Afghan Town. 799 01:16:20,460 --> 01:16:23,790 Sometimes it feels like Peshawar is a suburb of Kabul. 800 01:16:30,460 --> 01:16:31,950 This way. 801 01:16:53,000 --> 01:16:54,540 Amir jan. 802 01:16:57,040 --> 01:16:58,530 Amir jan. 803 01:16:58,750 --> 01:17:01,410 Welcome, welcome. 804 01:17:03,210 --> 01:17:05,690 You've become a man. 805 01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:08,360 General Taheri's daughter. 806 01:17:08,870 --> 01:17:10,990 She's a beauty. 807 01:17:12,540 --> 01:17:14,450 Any children? 808 01:17:17,750 --> 01:17:19,410 We tried, but 809 01:17:20,460 --> 01:17:22,990 it doesn't seem possible for us. 810 01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:26,330 Thank you. 811 01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:31,780 How long have you been in Pakistan? 812 01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,070 Less than a year. Kabul is no longer safe for me. 813 01:17:36,870 --> 01:17:39,240 The Taliban are as bad as they say? 814 01:17:39,830 --> 01:17:41,030 Oh, worse. 815 01:17:41,120 --> 01:17:44,620 Much worse. They don't let you be human. 816 01:17:44,960 --> 01:17:47,950 They even banned kite flying. 817 01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:54,030 I have something for you. 818 01:17:59,210 --> 01:18:00,580 What's this? 819 01:18:02,290 --> 01:18:03,490 Look. 820 01:18:12,750 --> 01:18:16,820 "For Rahim Khan, who listened to my stories 821 01:18:17,750 --> 01:18:19,990 "before I knew how to write them." 822 01:18:28,040 --> 01:18:30,030 This is a great honour, Amir. 823 01:18:37,040 --> 01:18:38,910 Let me take you home with me. 824 01:18:39,710 --> 01:18:41,910 I can find you a good doctor. 825 01:18:42,580 --> 01:18:45,120 They're coming up with new treatments all the time. 826 01:18:47,620 --> 01:18:49,330 Amir, Amir, Amir. 827 01:18:51,710 --> 01:18:54,870 I see America has infused you with her optimism. 828 01:18:56,080 --> 01:18:59,450 But there is such a thing as God's will. 829 01:19:03,830 --> 01:19:05,160 Come, sit. 830 01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:10,200 I didn't bring you here to complain about my health. 831 01:19:11,710 --> 01:19:16,160 Forgive me, Amir jan. Forgive me for what I have to tell you. 832 01:19:21,540 --> 01:19:23,160 Hassan is dead. 833 01:19:30,750 --> 01:19:31,860 How? 834 01:19:33,410 --> 01:19:36,700 You know I watched over your father's house after you left. 835 01:19:38,500 --> 01:19:42,110 But none of the caretakers I hired lasted more than a year. 836 01:19:43,120 --> 01:19:45,820 Some were dishonest, some lazy. 837 01:19:47,870 --> 01:19:51,280 So a few years ago I went to Hazarajat 838 01:19:53,210 --> 01:19:55,910 and brought Hassan and his family home with me. 839 01:19:58,500 --> 01:20:02,540 His wife, Farzana, and his son, Sohrab. 840 01:20:04,910 --> 01:20:06,660 Rostam and Sohrab 841 01:20:08,870 --> 01:20:10,990 It was so good to have them there. 842 01:20:12,710 --> 01:20:15,570 Hassan kept the house from falling apart. 843 01:20:15,870 --> 01:20:18,540 And Farzana cooked the meals. 844 01:20:18,910 --> 01:20:20,190 It was good. 845 01:20:20,540 --> 01:20:22,080 Very good. 846 01:20:23,620 --> 01:20:26,080 But when my health began to fail, 847 01:20:26,160 --> 01:20:30,240 well, there isn't a hospital in Afghanistan that can help me, 848 01:20:30,330 --> 01:20:31,740 so I came here. 849 01:20:33,830 --> 01:20:37,610 A few weeks after I left, the Taliban came to the house. 850 01:20:37,710 --> 01:20:41,530 Hassan told them that he was looking after the house for me, but... 851 01:20:42,710 --> 01:20:46,950 They said that he was a liar and a thief like all the other Hazaras. 852 01:20:47,040 --> 01:20:50,240 And they ordered him to leave with his family by nightfall. 853 01:20:52,160 --> 01:20:54,620 Hassan wouldn't leave. 854 01:20:55,210 --> 01:20:59,780 So they took him to the street and ordered him to kneel 855 01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,750 and shot him in the back of the head. 856 01:21:06,790 --> 01:21:10,240 Farzana came screaming and attacked them and... 857 01:21:12,620 --> 01:21:14,250 They shot her, too. 858 01:21:16,500 --> 01:21:17,820 And the boy? 859 01:21:20,710 --> 01:21:21,820 Sohrab? 860 01:21:22,710 --> 01:21:25,570 He is in an orphanage 861 01:21:27,790 --> 01:21:29,530 in Karteh Seh. 862 01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:34,860 Hassan sent this to me a week before he died. 863 01:21:37,210 --> 01:21:38,660 It's for you. 864 01:21:43,910 --> 01:21:46,240 He taught himself to read and write. 865 01:21:48,290 --> 01:21:51,990 He didn't want to send you a letter until he could do it properly. 866 01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:00,190 Amir, 867 01:22:02,460 --> 01:22:04,660 you need to go back to Kabul. 868 01:22:05,660 --> 01:22:08,370 I've arranged for a driver. He's a good man. 869 01:22:08,460 --> 01:22:10,160 I can't go back to Kabul. 870 01:22:10,910 --> 01:22:14,490 Can't you pay someone here to go? I'll pay for it if it's a matter of money. 871 01:22:14,580 --> 01:22:16,320 It's not about money. 872 01:22:18,370 --> 01:22:20,030 You are a storyteller. 873 01:22:20,790 --> 01:22:23,360 Some part of you has always known this story. 874 01:22:25,460 --> 01:22:28,320 Ali's first wife was from Jaghori. 875 01:22:29,710 --> 01:22:32,320 What does that have to do with anything? 876 01:22:32,660 --> 01:22:35,950 After five years she left him childless, 877 01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:39,240 and married a man from Khost. 878 01:22:41,330 --> 01:22:43,740 She bore that man three daughters. 879 01:22:45,330 --> 01:22:48,330 Do you understand what I'm trying to tell you? 880 01:22:49,330 --> 01:22:51,450 Ali was sterile. 881 01:22:52,910 --> 01:22:54,370 But he had Hassan. 882 01:22:54,460 --> 01:22:57,820 He raised Hassan. He didn't father him. 883 01:22:59,710 --> 01:23:04,530 Your father loved you both because you were both his sons, 884 01:23:04,620 --> 01:23:07,110 - and Sohrab... - No. 885 01:23:07,500 --> 01:23:08,780 He's your nephew. 886 01:23:08,870 --> 01:23:10,660 I don't believe you. 887 01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:13,070 You do. 888 01:23:14,080 --> 01:23:15,950 That's what frightens you. 889 01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:18,660 You're saying 890 01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:21,160 my father, 891 01:23:22,500 --> 01:23:24,820 for all those years, 892 01:23:25,540 --> 01:23:27,200 lied to me. 893 01:23:28,160 --> 01:23:29,330 Please think. 894 01:23:30,500 --> 01:23:35,150 All that a man had back then was his honour, his name, 895 01:23:35,410 --> 01:23:37,070 and if people talked... 896 01:23:37,160 --> 01:23:39,910 - He lied to me. - He lied to both of you. 897 01:23:40,750 --> 01:23:43,910 And now there is a way to be good again. 898 01:24:25,410 --> 01:24:28,410 "In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate, 899 01:24:28,500 --> 01:24:31,830 Amir agha, with my deepest respects. 900 01:24:32,500 --> 01:24:35,530 My wife and son and I pray this letter finds you in fine health, 901 01:24:35,620 --> 01:24:37,990 and in the light of God's good graces. 902 01:24:38,080 --> 01:24:40,700 I'm hopeful that one day I will hold one of your letters in my hands 903 01:24:40,790 --> 01:24:43,280 and read of your life in America. 904 01:24:43,370 --> 01:24:47,070 I am trying to learn English. It's such a tricky language. 905 01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:50,410 But one day, agha. I miss your stories. 906 01:24:51,540 --> 01:24:54,490 I've included a picture of me and my son, Sohrab. 907 01:24:54,580 --> 01:24:56,370 He's a good boy. 908 01:24:56,460 --> 01:24:58,280 Rahim Khan and I taught him how to read and write, 909 01:24:58,370 --> 01:25:01,200 so he doesn't grow up stupid like his father. 910 01:25:01,290 --> 01:25:04,490 And can he shoot with that slingshot you gave me! 911 01:25:06,500 --> 01:25:09,780 But I fear for him, Amir agha. 912 01:25:09,870 --> 01:25:12,440 The Afghanistan of our youth is long dead. 913 01:25:12,540 --> 01:25:17,490 Kindness is gone from the land, and you cannot escape the killings. 914 01:25:17,580 --> 01:25:19,650 Always the killings. 915 01:25:19,750 --> 01:25:23,030 I dream that God will guide us to a better day. 916 01:25:23,120 --> 01:25:26,700 I dream that my son will grow up to be a good person, 917 01:25:26,790 --> 01:25:29,030 a free person, 918 01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:30,950 an important person. 919 01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:33,990 I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets of Kabul again, 920 01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:37,080 and music will play in the samovar houses, 921 01:25:37,160 --> 01:25:40,160 and kites will fly in the skies. 922 01:25:40,250 --> 01:25:42,950 And I dream that someday you will return to Kabul 923 01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:45,740 to revisit the land of our childhood. 924 01:25:45,830 --> 01:25:50,120 If you do, you'll find an old faithful friend waiting for you. 925 01:25:50,960 --> 01:25:53,990 May God be with you always. 926 01:25:54,080 --> 01:25:55,660 Hassan. 927 01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:09,160 Hello? 928 01:26:10,000 --> 01:26:11,160 Hi. 929 01:26:12,620 --> 01:26:15,110 - Did I wake you up? - No. 930 01:26:16,460 --> 01:26:18,000 You all right? 931 01:26:19,120 --> 01:26:21,080 I have to tell you a story. 932 01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:25,490 What's his name? 933 01:26:52,290 --> 01:26:54,160 Stop playing with it. 934 01:26:55,540 --> 01:26:57,450 I really have to wear it? 935 01:26:58,370 --> 01:27:02,700 You know what the Taliban will do to you if they see you are clean-shaven? 936 01:27:58,580 --> 01:28:00,820 So what brings you back to Afghanistan? 937 01:28:00,910 --> 01:28:04,000 Come to sell off your father's land, pocket the money? 938 01:28:05,040 --> 01:28:06,830 I'm not here to sell anything. 939 01:28:07,750 --> 01:28:09,900 I'm going to Kabul to find a boy. 940 01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:12,660 A boy? 941 01:28:21,120 --> 01:28:22,700 This boy? 942 01:28:22,790 --> 01:28:24,860 This Hazara boy? 943 01:28:24,960 --> 01:28:26,370 Yeah. 944 01:28:27,580 --> 01:28:29,540 What he means to you? 945 01:28:31,870 --> 01:28:35,700 His father meant a lot to me. He's the man in the photo. 946 01:28:37,080 --> 01:28:38,790 He's dead now. 947 01:28:40,040 --> 01:28:42,030 It was a friend of yours? 948 01:28:43,710 --> 01:28:45,250 He was my brother. 949 01:28:53,370 --> 01:28:56,040 I feel like a tourist in my own country. 950 01:28:56,330 --> 01:28:59,860 You've always been a tourist here. You just didn't know it. 951 01:29:04,410 --> 01:29:08,160 - What happened to the trees? - The Russians chopped them down. 952 01:29:18,790 --> 01:29:20,780 You know what they're doing? 953 01:29:22,500 --> 01:29:24,040 He's selling his leg? 954 01:29:24,710 --> 01:29:26,860 He can get good money for it. 955 01:29:26,960 --> 01:29:29,360 Feed your kids for a couple of weeks. 956 01:29:43,040 --> 01:29:45,080 - What's that smell? - Diesel. 957 01:29:46,620 --> 01:29:49,900 The power's always going off so people use generators. 958 01:29:52,040 --> 01:29:55,200 Do you remember what this street smelled like in the old days? 959 01:29:57,830 --> 01:30:02,200 Lamb kabob. 960 01:30:07,370 --> 01:30:09,990 Beard patrol. 961 01:30:14,830 --> 01:30:16,370 What's the matter with you? 962 01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:18,030 What? 963 01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:20,410 Don't you ever stare at them! 964 01:30:21,710 --> 01:30:23,080 Understand me? 965 01:30:23,710 --> 01:30:24,740 Never! 966 01:31:19,290 --> 01:31:21,030 We're looking for this boy. 967 01:31:21,120 --> 01:31:23,280 I'm sorry. I've never seen him. 968 01:31:23,750 --> 01:31:26,030 You barely looked at the picture, my friend. 969 01:31:26,160 --> 01:31:28,200 I know all the children here 970 01:31:28,870 --> 01:31:30,700 and that one doesn't look familiar. 971 01:31:31,210 --> 01:31:32,750 And now, if you'll permit me... 972 01:31:32,960 --> 01:31:34,580 We don't mean him any harm. 973 01:31:34,710 --> 01:31:36,410 I told you he's not here. 974 01:31:36,540 --> 01:31:39,030 - Now, please, go away. - Friend, we are not with the Taliban. 975 01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:41,330 The man wants to take this boy to a safe place. 976 01:31:41,620 --> 01:31:43,250 I knew Sohrab's father. 977 01:31:43,620 --> 01:31:44,780 His name was Hassan. 978 01:31:45,370 --> 01:31:47,780 There's hope for this boy, Agha. 979 01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:49,790 A way out. 980 01:31:50,460 --> 01:31:52,360 I can take him back to America with me. 981 01:31:53,830 --> 01:31:55,820 I'm his uncle. 982 01:32:01,210 --> 01:32:03,740 What I have to tell you is not pleasant. 983 01:32:04,370 --> 01:32:07,070 I tell you, because I believe you. 984 01:32:07,620 --> 01:32:10,240 You have the look of desperate men. 985 01:32:17,000 --> 01:32:19,490 There is a Talib official. 986 01:32:20,500 --> 01:32:22,780 He visits every month or two. 987 01:32:23,750 --> 01:32:26,030 He brings cash with him. 988 01:32:26,210 --> 01:32:29,370 Not a lot, but better than nothing. 989 01:32:30,540 --> 01:32:32,610 Usually, he takes a girl. 990 01:32:33,710 --> 01:32:35,360 But not always. 991 01:32:37,160 --> 01:32:38,490 And you allow this? 992 01:32:39,080 --> 01:32:40,700 What choice do I have? 993 01:32:41,540 --> 01:32:42,870 You're the director here. 994 01:32:43,410 --> 01:32:45,240 Your job is to watch over these children. 995 01:32:45,330 --> 01:32:46,740 There is nothing I can do. 996 01:32:46,830 --> 01:32:48,950 - You're selling children! - Easy. 997 01:32:49,040 --> 01:32:50,240 You're here to protect them! 998 01:32:50,330 --> 01:32:51,440 Yes, 999 01:32:51,540 --> 01:32:53,030 I am here to protect them. 1000 01:32:53,290 --> 01:32:54,400 Sit. 1001 01:32:56,500 --> 01:32:58,240 And you, brother? 1002 01:32:58,660 --> 01:33:01,450 You come here to rescue a boy, 1003 01:33:01,750 --> 01:33:04,660 take him back to America, give him a good life. 1004 01:33:05,460 --> 01:33:07,660 It must seem heroic, huh? 1005 01:33:08,290 --> 01:33:10,610 But what of the other two hundred children? 1006 01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:12,740 You'll never see them again. 1007 01:33:12,830 --> 01:33:15,320 You'll never hear them howling in the night. 1008 01:33:16,290 --> 01:33:18,610 I spent my life savings on this orphanage. 1009 01:33:18,750 --> 01:33:22,910 Everything I owned or inherited I sold to run this godforsaken place. 1010 01:33:24,080 --> 01:33:28,030 You think I don't have family in Pakistan or Iran? 1011 01:33:28,710 --> 01:33:31,790 I could have run like everyone else. 1012 01:33:33,080 --> 01:33:36,030 If I deny him one child, he takes 10. 1013 01:33:36,960 --> 01:33:39,570 So, I let him take one, 1014 01:33:40,120 --> 01:33:42,990 and leave the judging to Allah. 1015 01:33:44,250 --> 01:33:47,080 I take his filthy money, and I go to the bazaar, 1016 01:33:47,750 --> 01:33:49,070 and I buy food for the children. 1017 01:33:50,660 --> 01:33:53,370 You think I spend it on myself? 1018 01:33:54,160 --> 01:33:55,620 Look at me. 1019 01:33:57,000 --> 01:33:58,080 Look. 1020 01:33:58,830 --> 01:34:00,700 What happens to the children he takes? 1021 01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:04,700 Sometimes, they come back, 1022 01:34:05,910 --> 01:34:07,870 more often, they don't. 1023 01:34:10,750 --> 01:34:12,570 Who is he? 1024 01:34:13,460 --> 01:34:15,740 How do I find him? 1025 01:34:19,580 --> 01:34:22,580 Go to the Ghazi Stadium tomorrow. 1026 01:34:22,750 --> 01:34:26,160 You'll see him at halftime. 1027 01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:29,790 He'll be the one making speeches. 1028 01:34:30,710 --> 01:34:34,370 Now, please leave. You've frightened the children. 1029 01:34:37,120 --> 01:34:38,750 Pull over here. 1030 01:35:25,080 --> 01:35:26,110 We should go. 1031 01:35:31,580 --> 01:35:33,040 I have to look at one more thing. 1032 01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:35,240 Nothing that you remember has survived. 1033 01:35:35,330 --> 01:35:36,740 Better to forget. 1034 01:35:37,790 --> 01:35:39,580 I don't want to forget any more. 1035 01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:20,070 Do you want to stay here? 1036 01:37:20,910 --> 01:37:22,570 No, but we have to. 1037 01:37:33,870 --> 01:37:35,030 That's him. 1038 01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:44,530 Brothers and sisters! 1039 01:37:45,040 --> 01:37:47,330 We are here today to carry out Shari'a. 1040 01:37:47,660 --> 01:37:49,820 We are here today to carry out justice. 1041 01:37:50,330 --> 01:37:52,530 We listen to what God says, and we obey. 1042 01:37:52,910 --> 01:37:53,990 And what does God say? 1043 01:37:54,210 --> 01:37:57,990 Every sinner must be punished in a manner befitting his sin. 1044 01:37:58,580 --> 01:38:01,780 Those are not my words, nor the words of my brothers. 1045 01:38:02,080 --> 01:38:03,990 Those are the words of God! 1046 01:38:04,160 --> 01:38:07,030 And what manner of punishment benefits the adulterer? 1047 01:38:07,250 --> 01:38:11,370 How shall we punish those who dishonour the sanctity of marriage? 1048 01:38:12,250 --> 01:38:15,940 How shall we deal with those who disobey God? 1049 01:38:16,580 --> 01:38:20,620 How shall we answer those who throw stones at the windows of God's house? 1050 01:38:21,580 --> 01:38:24,250 We shall throw stones back! 1051 01:38:49,710 --> 01:38:50,820 My friend. 1052 01:38:51,040 --> 01:38:53,080 My friend, a word? 1053 01:38:54,410 --> 01:38:56,240 We have business with your brother. 1054 01:38:58,710 --> 01:39:00,580 Personal business. 1055 01:40:01,700 --> 01:40:05,690 I guess I'll wait in the car. This is your business now. 1056 01:40:07,110 --> 01:40:09,400 Thank you for helping me. 1057 01:40:21,200 --> 01:40:22,990 Anyone there? 1058 01:40:26,910 --> 01:40:29,740 I was told to come here. 1059 01:40:34,160 --> 01:40:35,190 Come in. 1060 01:40:36,360 --> 01:40:37,390 Thank you. 1061 01:40:50,070 --> 01:40:51,530 How soft. 1062 01:41:29,240 --> 01:41:30,400 Sit down. 1063 01:41:31,410 --> 01:41:32,570 Sit down. 1064 01:42:05,500 --> 01:42:07,830 I think there's been a mistake. 1065 01:42:08,170 --> 01:42:10,660 I came to see your friend. 1066 01:42:12,250 --> 01:42:14,660 The man who made the speech at the stadium. 1067 01:42:15,170 --> 01:42:17,000 He has other business. 1068 01:42:17,630 --> 01:42:19,500 You can do away with that now. 1069 01:42:22,340 --> 01:42:24,000 I'm not sure what you mean. 1070 01:42:24,670 --> 01:42:26,130 Take off your beard. 1071 01:42:42,130 --> 01:42:44,580 One of the better ones I've seen. 1072 01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:47,160 Take off the turban. 1073 01:42:53,300 --> 01:42:54,750 You come from America? 1074 01:42:57,090 --> 01:42:58,250 Yes. 1075 01:43:02,460 --> 01:43:03,620 I'm looking for a boy. 1076 01:43:04,130 --> 01:43:06,120 Isn't everybody? 1077 01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:10,790 I understand your friend brought him here. 1078 01:43:11,670 --> 01:43:13,160 His name is Sohrab. 1079 01:43:14,130 --> 01:43:15,950 Let me ask you something. 1080 01:43:16,710 --> 01:43:18,950 What are you doing with that whore America? 1081 01:43:19,630 --> 01:43:21,290 Why aren't you here 1082 01:43:21,960 --> 01:43:24,580 with your Muslim brothers, serving your country. 1083 01:43:25,710 --> 01:43:28,170 I've been away for a long time. 1084 01:43:29,380 --> 01:43:30,710 That's an answer? 1085 01:43:32,300 --> 01:43:33,920 Not an answer, they say. 1086 01:43:35,750 --> 01:43:38,160 I'm only here for the boy. 1087 01:43:39,210 --> 01:43:40,460 Do you want to see him? 1088 01:44:20,130 --> 01:44:21,330 Come, my boy. 1089 01:44:27,800 --> 01:44:29,670 Such a talented little Hazara. 1090 01:44:31,050 --> 01:44:32,540 Leave us be. 1091 01:44:36,710 --> 01:44:37,960 I've been wondering, 1092 01:44:38,340 --> 01:44:41,170 whatever happened to your great Baba, anyway? 1093 01:44:42,920 --> 01:44:44,000 What did you think? 1094 01:44:44,460 --> 01:44:46,830 That you'd put on a fake beard and I wouldn't recognise you? 1095 01:44:47,960 --> 01:44:50,330 I knew you the second I saw you in the stadium. 1096 01:44:50,590 --> 01:44:53,210 I never forget a face. Never! 1097 01:44:54,630 --> 01:44:56,090 Assef? 1098 01:44:56,300 --> 01:44:57,490 Amir jan. 1099 01:44:59,420 --> 01:45:00,790 What are you doing here? 1100 01:45:01,000 --> 01:45:02,250 Me? 1101 01:45:02,460 --> 01:45:04,120 I'm home. 1102 01:45:04,800 --> 01:45:06,950 The question is, what are you doing here? 1103 01:45:09,210 --> 01:45:11,120 I'm taking the boy home with me. 1104 01:45:14,840 --> 01:45:16,210 You want my advice? 1105 01:45:16,710 --> 01:45:17,990 Run away. 1106 01:45:18,380 --> 01:45:20,040 That's what you do best. 1107 01:45:21,460 --> 01:45:23,120 Not without Sohrab. 1108 01:45:24,840 --> 01:45:26,030 Why's that? 1109 01:45:26,340 --> 01:45:27,910 The boy's too good for his country? 1110 01:45:28,090 --> 01:45:29,830 What do you know about Afghanistan? 1111 01:45:30,460 --> 01:45:32,420 You weren't here when the Communists shot our mullahs 1112 01:45:32,500 --> 01:45:34,000 and pissed in our mosques. 1113 01:45:34,090 --> 01:45:37,290 This country was like a beautiful mansion littered with garbage. 1114 01:45:37,420 --> 01:45:40,580 We took out the garbage. We brought law. We brought justice. 1115 01:45:40,670 --> 01:45:42,580 I have seen your laws 1116 01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:44,620 and your justice. 1117 01:45:45,170 --> 01:45:47,130 And I'm taking the boy home with me. 1118 01:45:47,210 --> 01:45:48,750 All right, then. 1119 01:45:53,380 --> 01:45:56,250 Of course, I didn't say you could take him for free. 1120 01:46:27,840 --> 01:46:29,160 No more. 1121 01:46:29,590 --> 01:46:31,290 No more, Agha. Please, stop hurting him. 1122 01:46:31,590 --> 01:46:34,670 Put it down, Hazara. You'll get yours next. 1123 01:46:35,800 --> 01:46:36,830 Put it down! 1124 01:46:42,670 --> 01:46:43,750 Get it out! 1125 01:46:46,710 --> 01:46:48,580 Get it out! 1126 01:47:16,550 --> 01:47:18,040 Kill him! 1127 01:48:35,050 --> 01:48:38,210 Go home to your family. 1128 01:48:52,090 --> 01:48:53,410 Are you Amir? 1129 01:48:55,550 --> 01:48:58,210 Rahim Khan left this for you. 1130 01:48:59,050 --> 01:49:00,370 Where did he go? 1131 01:49:01,050 --> 01:49:03,120 I did not ask. 1132 01:49:04,300 --> 01:49:05,790 But he'll be back? 1133 01:49:06,710 --> 01:49:10,160 He has left us, my child. 1134 01:49:27,000 --> 01:49:28,960 You're wasting your hand. 1135 01:49:47,250 --> 01:49:48,500 Sohrab? 1136 01:49:58,170 --> 01:49:59,370 Sohrab? 1137 01:50:21,170 --> 01:50:22,280 Sohrab? 1138 01:50:40,250 --> 01:50:41,420 Sohrab? 1139 01:51:21,300 --> 01:51:23,910 Take off your shoes, dear brother. 1140 01:51:25,340 --> 01:51:27,130 Forgive me. 1141 01:52:45,200 --> 01:52:48,120 I thought I lost you. 1142 01:52:55,660 --> 01:52:58,910 He used to come get me in the morning before prayers. 1143 01:53:01,080 --> 01:53:03,740 I didn't want him to get me any more. 1144 01:53:08,410 --> 01:53:10,810 He won't, Sohrab. 1145 01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:14,030 I swear to you, 1146 01:53:15,530 --> 01:53:17,770 he can't get you any more. 1147 01:53:19,580 --> 01:53:21,570 Are your parents dead? 1148 01:53:24,780 --> 01:53:26,060 Yes. 1149 01:53:28,080 --> 01:53:30,450 Do you remember what they look like? 1150 01:53:33,240 --> 01:53:34,870 I never met my mother. 1151 01:53:37,240 --> 01:53:39,610 I remember what my father looked like. 1152 01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:43,950 I'm starting to forget their faces. 1153 01:53:45,330 --> 01:53:47,070 Is that bad? 1154 01:53:56,450 --> 01:53:58,240 Here. 1155 01:54:03,450 --> 01:54:07,230 Sometimes I'm glad they're dead. 1156 01:54:08,490 --> 01:54:09,570 Why? 1157 01:54:12,200 --> 01:54:13,310 Because... 1158 01:54:14,700 --> 01:54:17,070 Because I don't want them to see me. 1159 01:54:18,870 --> 01:54:20,990 I'm so dirty. 1160 01:54:22,870 --> 01:54:24,150 You're not dirty. 1161 01:54:33,490 --> 01:54:35,070 I won't hurt you. 1162 01:54:46,530 --> 01:54:47,860 That's my wife. 1163 01:54:53,900 --> 01:54:56,060 - Missed you. - Missed you, too. 1164 01:54:58,980 --> 01:55:01,220 Sohrab jan, this is your aunt. 1165 01:55:03,980 --> 01:55:05,720 We've all been waiting for you. 1166 01:55:06,440 --> 01:55:09,010 Ready to meet your new family? 1167 01:55:11,110 --> 01:55:12,300 Let's go. 1168 01:55:22,320 --> 01:55:25,150 Do you like your room? 1169 01:55:41,150 --> 01:55:42,690 You don't look so bad. 1170 01:55:46,320 --> 01:55:48,310 I don't think he's looked at me once. 1171 01:55:50,400 --> 01:55:51,860 Give him time. 1172 01:55:53,360 --> 01:55:56,140 I'm knitting him a turtleneck sweater for next winter. 1173 01:55:56,480 --> 01:55:59,180 The sweaters they sell here don't last a month. 1174 01:56:04,980 --> 01:56:06,260 Amir jan. 1175 01:56:06,360 --> 01:56:10,100 You're going to tell me why you've brought this boy back with you? 1176 01:56:12,320 --> 01:56:13,810 What sort of question is that? 1177 01:56:14,020 --> 01:56:16,640 While you're busy knitting sweaters, my dear, 1178 01:56:16,770 --> 01:56:19,480 I have to deal with the community perception of our family. 1179 01:56:19,980 --> 01:56:23,980 People will ask why there is a Hazara boy living with our daughter. 1180 01:56:24,070 --> 01:56:25,640 What do I tell them? 1181 01:56:27,320 --> 01:56:28,690 You can tell them... 1182 01:56:28,860 --> 01:56:30,050 It's all right. 1183 01:56:30,480 --> 01:56:31,860 The General is correct. 1184 01:56:32,360 --> 01:56:33,930 People will ask. 1185 01:56:34,360 --> 01:56:36,600 - Amir? - It's all right. 1186 01:56:42,730 --> 01:56:44,520 You see, General Sahib, 1187 01:56:45,570 --> 01:56:48,230 my father slept with his servant's wife. 1188 01:56:49,650 --> 01:56:52,180 And she bore him a son named Hassan. 1189 01:56:54,070 --> 01:56:55,690 Hassan is dead now. 1190 01:56:56,440 --> 01:56:59,850 That boy sleeping in the other room is Hassan's son. 1191 01:57:01,650 --> 01:57:03,140 He's my nephew. 1192 01:57:04,190 --> 01:57:06,860 That's what you tell people when they ask. 1193 01:57:08,860 --> 01:57:11,180 And one more thing, General Sahib. 1194 01:57:12,110 --> 01:57:16,230 You will never again refer to him as "a Hazara boy" in my presence. 1195 01:57:16,860 --> 01:57:21,020 He has a name, and it's Sohrab. 1196 01:57:47,400 --> 01:57:49,020 - It felt so real. - Thank you. 1197 01:57:49,110 --> 01:57:50,900 My pleasure. Thank you. 1198 01:57:50,980 --> 01:57:53,310 Look. Look at that. 1199 01:57:58,150 --> 01:57:59,730 Excuse me a second. 1200 01:58:06,150 --> 01:58:07,970 I'd like that kite, please. 1201 01:58:08,650 --> 01:58:10,310 And I'll take this spool. 1202 01:58:30,270 --> 01:58:31,680 Do you like the kite? 1203 01:58:37,770 --> 01:58:39,150 Did I ever tell you 1204 01:58:40,320 --> 01:58:41,350 your father 1205 01:58:41,980 --> 01:58:44,140 was the best kite runner in all Kabul? 1206 01:58:46,070 --> 01:58:48,810 He made all the neighbourhood kids jealous. 1207 01:58:49,980 --> 01:58:51,310 He'd run the kites 1208 01:58:51,900 --> 01:58:54,730 and never look up at the sky. 1209 01:58:55,610 --> 01:58:57,230 Some claimed 1210 01:58:57,400 --> 01:59:00,430 he was just chasing the kite's shadow. 1211 01:59:00,980 --> 01:59:05,270 But they didn't know him like I did. 1212 01:59:06,110 --> 01:59:09,270 Your father wasn't chasing shadows. 1213 01:59:10,610 --> 01:59:12,430 He just knew. 1214 01:59:13,360 --> 01:59:14,900 That's all. 1215 01:59:20,360 --> 01:59:23,110 Do you want to help me fly this? 1216 01:59:24,440 --> 01:59:25,810 Okay. 1217 01:59:26,020 --> 01:59:28,230 Looks like I have to fly it solo. 1218 01:59:39,320 --> 01:59:40,940 Last chance. 1219 01:59:44,650 --> 01:59:45,890 Here I go. 1220 01:59:55,690 --> 01:59:57,230 It's a good kite, no? 1221 01:59:59,570 --> 02:00:01,060 Do you want to try? 1222 02:00:03,270 --> 02:00:04,470 Here. 1223 02:00:07,480 --> 02:00:08,940 Hold it tight, Sohrab jan. 1224 02:00:10,110 --> 02:00:11,520 Good job, Sohrab. 1225 02:00:24,110 --> 02:00:25,350 Pull, pull, pull! 1226 02:00:37,860 --> 02:00:39,730 Looks like someone wants a fight. 1227 02:00:41,520 --> 02:00:43,020 Are you sure? 1228 02:00:53,520 --> 02:00:55,480 Let's teach him a lesson, no? 1229 02:00:55,860 --> 02:00:57,350 Watch, Sohrab. 1230 02:00:57,650 --> 02:01:01,260 I'm going to show you one of your father's favourite tricks. 1231 02:01:01,400 --> 02:01:02,940 An old technique. 1232 02:01:03,480 --> 02:01:04,730 Lift and Dive. 1233 02:01:09,690 --> 02:01:11,180 Come. 1234 02:01:15,980 --> 02:01:17,480 Come closer. 1235 02:01:25,320 --> 02:01:26,860 Here he comes! 1236 02:01:27,730 --> 02:01:29,230 We're going to catch him now, right? 1237 02:01:42,150 --> 02:01:43,890 Look, I cut him! 1238 02:01:46,900 --> 02:01:48,640 What are you doing, you can't hold it right? 1239 02:01:48,730 --> 02:01:49,980 I'm sorry! 1240 02:01:50,400 --> 02:01:52,110 Do you want me to run that kite for you? 1241 02:01:54,690 --> 02:01:56,930 For you, a thousand times over.