During the War, the Osman family escapes from Afghanistan leaving everything behind. Their only suitcase, filled with family photos, is stolen. Now after two decades of living in America, Wazhmah Osman, a young Afghan-American returns to her childhood home. With only rapidly fading memories, she recruits some unlikely and reluctant guides to put together the pieces of her past.
The Patua (Chitrakar) communities of West Bengal have been painters and singers of stories depicted in scrolls. They tell stories of Muslim saints as well as Hindu deities, and offer devotion to saints at Muslim shrines. They used to wander from village to village, receiving food and coins for re...
