I Was Worth 50 sheep
Realizador Nima Sarvestani
Países United States, Japan
Duração 72 min
Sinopse
Sabere, now sixteen, was only seven years old when her father died in war. Her
uncle then inherited her. He sold her, when she was ten, to a 50-year-old man
who made her pregnant four times, but each time she experienced a missgariage.
She fled from him and now lives in a safe house in Mazar-e sharif. Sabere's mother
was also inherited by her cousin. They have a daughter Farzaneh, now eleven. Her
father, is selling her because of poverty. He is going to wait until she is fifteen, but the
buyer's family want to take her at once. They are afraid that Farzaneh's father may
runs away together with her.This family's weekdays are filled with problems. Their
hope is tied to CCA (The Co-operation Centre for Afghanistan). They have to find
Sabere's husband and fcompel him to divorce her, but he lives in an area controlled
by the Taliban. Sabere's buyer is saught by the police and her family helps the police
to find and arrest him. But they fail to have Sabere divorced