They are dressed and raised as men. They are the unborn sons, grandsons, and brothers. Everyone in Afghanistan knows their secret, but no one ever speaks of it aloud.
Every day they challenge Sharia order. Rebels and at the same time prisoners of their own bodies, which reveal their secret more and more each year.
Their life is an embodied provocation. Their reward is freedom, which they will lose as soon as they don the burqa.
These girls are a mystery, and in the mystery lies all the meaning.