This is a unique feature film about an all-too-familiar occurrence. At its core are audio-taped interviews with a one-time refugee from Kabul about his experiences and their long-term effects. Rasmussen has added simply drawn, multi-viewpoint, vivid animation, along with snippets of well-chosen film footage that give the historical context.
Amin Nawabi, a friend of the director from secondary school in Denmark, escaped as a child from Afghanistan in 1996. The film opens with his free-and-easy, exuberant early years as the youngest child and focus of his family’s attention. But we discover that his oldest brother left the country to escape service in the army, and the police had arrested his father, who’s imprisoned, then ‘disappears’. When the Taliban take over Kabul, Amin flees with his mother and siblings on one of the last flights out
