Waiting for the rainbow

Zahra's biggest dream is to gain education and become a midwife. But since her father Reza is already looking forward to marry her off as soon as she reaches the puberty, and believes that going to school is a shame for the girl of her age, she would have to struggle a lot to make her dream come true. Neither she nor her father expects the shame to fall on the family, after Zahra is being sexually assaulted on her way from school and then forced by the village elders into marriage with the culprit, as per customary law. Her decision to elope will put Reza in debts for years and push his elder son, Zaker, to reach for extreme means, resulting in the tragedy they could never expect. The story - set up in a remote village of Afghanistan - is a call for action to put the end to discrimination against girls and respect their rights, including right to education, reasoning that education of girls turns out to be the best investment of the community.