An Ancient Culture drowns in a Sea of Brutality.
After enduring twenty-five years of civil strife, a botched occupation attempt and countless calamities, Afghanistan has finally returned to a state of relative-though fragile-calm. Controlled by a violent autocratic regime intent on eradicting personal liberties and forcing society back into the Dark Ages, Afghanistan faces a new set of challenges.
Afghanistan: The Lost Generation is not about politics or religion. It is an unflinching look at the atrocities of war, and a personal visit to a nation and a people struggling to survive in the total desperation caused by an almost perpetual state of conflict.
In a nation of countless victims, thousands of emotionally and physically crippled survivors-maimed children, widows and silent scholars-struggle to rebuild their lives. Ustad Kamal, a dean of traditional music and a virtuoso of the two-stringed dotar, uses his music to alleviate his pain and fight the cultural genocide destroying his country. Twelve-year-old Bashir lost both his feet in a rocket blast that struck his home and killed his parents, yet he works to provide food for his six surviving brothers and sisters. Nasrullah, a soldier crippled by war, clings to memories of his lost childhood amid the brutal reality of death and destruction.
This is the struggle to rebuild a new Afghanistan as seen through the eyes of the lost generation.
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