"Sadat is Naru, a woman effectively separated from her creep of a husband, burdened with sole charge of their son as well as being the only earner. She is a camera operator at a Kabul TV station; she has liberated friends with western attitudes one cheerfully gives her a vibrator as a present. Naru is landed with working on sappy, soft-centred shows problem-page magazine programmes where women are patronised by sexist dopes."
"She yearns to work on real news items and gets her big break when a male cameraman is unavailable for the station's big interview with a Taliban chief. The interviewer Quodri (Anwar Hashimi) is icily misogynist about this new woman he has to work with and when the Taliban chief inevitably walks out of the interview on the grounds that Naru is not sufficiently covering her head,"
Shahrbanoo Sadat stars as Naru, a Kabul TV camera operator separated from an odious husband, sole earner and mother to their son. Naru shoots soft consumer shows while yearning to cover real news and gains a chance when a male cameraman is absent for an interview with a Taliban chief. The Taliban chief's exit over her uncovered head leads to an attempted public humiliation, yet Naru's vox-pop work elicits candid female testimony and helps secure a major rape story. Quodri, the initially misogynist interviewer, grows to admire her professionally and romantically as Kabul falls and her rights face mounting threats.
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