This play is a spiritual sequel to Khaled Hosseini’s “Kite Runner.”

 In 1992 in an Afghanistan ravaged by war an orphaned Laila is left alone in a threatening world. Her older neighbour Rasheed is quick to open his home and take Laila as his second wife. His first wife has to accept her younger and now pregnant rival.   As the Taliban take over, life becomes a desperate struggle against starvation, brutality and fear and the two women find themselves to be unlikely allies.