Afghanistan, 1975 Twelve- time-old Amir is hopeless to win the original vampire- fighting event and his pious friend Hassan promises to help him. But neither of the boys can prevision what will be to Hassan that autumn, an event that's to shatter their lives. After the Russians foray and the family is forced to flee to America, Amir realises that one day he must return to Afghanistan under Taliban rule to find the one thing that his new world can not grant him redemption.