Bread & Roses plot
The documentary chronicles the aftermath of the 2021 Taliban offensive that ended two decades of war in Afghanistan. As the U.S. occupation ended and the Taliban gained control, women lost the right to education after sixth grade, to work, and to walk unaccompanied in public. The film follows three women. Sharifa, a former government employee, is reduced to a dull life indoors. Zahra, a dentist forced out of her job who begins organizing activists in her former practice; she is arrested and tortured. Taranom is exiled for her activism and becomes a Pakistani refugee.