In an Afghan village, Zeba is discovered beside her dead husband in the courtyard of their home. She is immediately blamed for the murder and imprisoned in Kabul’s Chil Mahtab women’s prison. When her lawyer arrives, she refuses to reveal the events that led to her husband’s brutal murder. With little hope of Zeba not being found guilty, her lawyer, Yusuf visits her village to try to uncover the truth. Because he’s lived in New York since the age of five, the villagers don’t trust him, and he is at a loss to know how to defend a woman he believes is innocent.

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