It portrays themes of love, sacrifice, and the human spirit amidst the brutality of the Taliban regime.
He is at the marketplace when he sees the prostitute being stoned to death at a public execution.
Even though he thinks it is wrong, he loses himself, picks up a rock and throws it at her, cracking her head open.
Mirza was one of the first soldiers to desert his unit and join the Mujahideen during the war.
Mohsen Ramat goes home, and you meet his wife Zunaira, a beautiful woman who used to be a schoolteacher.
Atiq is patrolling a sanctuary, seizing men and forcing them to join the assembled faithful.
During Maghreb prayer, Atiq is mad at himself for thinking angry thoughts about the poor and elderly.
After the prayer, he doesn't want to go home to his wife so he stops to listen to some old war veterans.
Goliath tells a story about being ambushed, having to lie surrounded by smelly corpses.
This causes an uproar because the mujahideen's "dead do not stink"; it must have been the Shuravi (the opposing side during the war).
Atiq finally goes home and is surprised to find his wife Musarrat out of bed.
You meet Nazeesh, who comes into the jail to comfort the jailer, as he has seen the light on.
Atiq thinks to himself that if Ms. Conner does not start acting better, he will stop being kind to her.
She will have to cover her face with a burqa and she will not be allowed to hold Mohsen's hand.
Atiq finds Nazeesh and apologizes for the previous night; but before leaving he is mean to him again.
Zunaira and Mohsen exchange comments on his rudeness, then start to laugh.
They tell him that his wife will wait there, and he will attend Mullah Bashir's sermon.
Meanwhile, Zunaira sits outside in the hot sun for two hours, stewing over her fate as a woman in Taliban society, and coming to terms with the fact that the rights she had in the past have been completely stripped away from the Taliban.
He trips on a carafe, hits his head on the wall and breaks his neck.
He pleads her case to Qassim but he tells her that she is tricking him and even if she were innocent there are no women on the execution line for the big rally and to remember that she is just a woman.
He agrees and tells Zunaira (dressed as Musarrat) to wait at the rally until it is over.
When that does not work, he starts to think that every girl is Zunaira and he just wants to see her pretty face.
As he gets back up, he hears people calling him a monster and that he should be hanged or shot.