Arezo Ariapoor

Two refugee siblings are separated in different parts of the world. The impossibility to meet in person due the pandemic, forces them to share their grief of their mother’s death in diaspora, through an online call. In their grief, long kept secrets unfold and threatens their relation to tip over into hatred and guilt.

This is the story of Zibaa Karimi, a 30-year old Afghan filmmaker and Government employee, facing the most dangerous 40 hours of her life. Zibaa is a woman on the run. The Taliban have taken over her country and Zibaa must take the most difficult choice: staying and facing potential death or leaving. But fleeing means separating herself forever from her fiancé Samir.