“…The protagonists of the film include a teacher who is also an actress, a policewoman whose second job is working as an action film director, an activist of the organization RAWA who advocates the radical separation of state and religion, a girls' theatre group in Kabul, and Malacca who lives as a boy to earn a living for her family.…”

“…In filming for almost three years and recording countless interviews, the filmmaker (who is himself an atheist and the son of communist activists) attempted to understand the roots of religious fundamentalism. …”