An illegal immigrant is reminded of his origin by the melodies of an instrument of his birthplace Bumiyan, Afganistan. However, the musician playing the instrument claims that the melodies aren't from Bumiyan, but from Kurdistan. But where is Kurdistan?

在过去的数十年里，阿富汗首都喀布尔是全世界最危险的城市之一。旷日持久的战争笼罩了当地居民的生活，人肉炸弹的袭击时常发生。刚刚12岁的阿夫欣与弟弟本杰明生于战火，长于纷争，二人相依为命徘徊于死亡的边沿。司机阿巴斯口若悬河，负债累累，终日在这座城市里奔波。影片以舒缓的笔触，记述了喀布尔的一名小巴司机和一对兄弟蒙尘的日常。

祈禱聲間，步槍上肩，信仰與武裝構成日常。虔誠的阿富汗兄弟身在其間：哥哥巡邏站崗，視殉道為夢想，亦為俗務心煩；弟弟尚未成年，放牧遊玩、背誦經文，以兄長為榜樣，天真全寫在臉上。鏡頭用開放取代評斷，微觀塔利班神權統治下的男性成長。外人眼中的洗腦灌輸，在他們心中是充實救贖，使觀眾擺盪於同感與震撼之間。

In the rural Liangshan Mountains, 14-year-old Qihuo and her friends embark on a road trip to find a skirt for her traditional menarche rite of passage.

This film is about haunting memories of Asia's late 20th-century modernization. The story departs from a 1965 United States embargo on the hair trade, known as the "Communist Hair Ban". Yet, in every wig resides a ghost from the imperial past.
Wigs were vital for the rise of the Asian economy in the post-war era. In the heyday of the 1960s, it was the number four export in Hong Kong's export-orientated industrialization. Between Mao's China - the largest source of hair supplies, and the insatiable Western market, Hong Kong functioned as the gateway. In 1965, U.S. Treasury Department imposed an embargo on "Asiatic hair", to cut off foreign currency to Communist China in the hair trade. The highly racialized category of "Asiatic hair" was later revised as "communist hair", to enable the wig industry to develop in U.S. allies including mainly South Korea and Japan, which led to a significant reconfiguration of light industry in East Asia. Departing from the moment of the communist hair ban, through stories of movement, diaspora and migration, this project examines the role of Hong Kong as a transient space that mediates and sanitizes the connection between different worlds, and the relationship between U.S. Imperialism and East Asia order in the Cold War era.
Produced by: Ruoyao Jane Yao
Director of Photography: Yavuz Selim Isler
Cameraman (Hong Kong): Fai Wan
Sound Recording: Franco van der Linde
Casting Director: Sai-wang Lau
Makeup: Ika Kartika
Color Grading: Bob Lemm
Voice-over:
Jia Zhao, Hamza Junaid, Tommy Tse
Cast:
Zoenie Liwen Deng, Ruoyao Jane Yao, Zoe Tang, Michael de Ross, Sidney Vereycken, Sai-wang Lau, Jo-Lene Ong
Produced by:
Geodesic Studio, Vines Films
Thanks to
WAAG Society, Amsterdam
16mm Film Transfer and Scanning
Andec Filmtechnik, Berlin