An Afghan academic, on the eve of his wedding to his long-term partner in Copenhagen, finally sits down with a filmmaker friend and tells the story he has kept secret for twenty years: the flight from Kabul, the years in hiding in Moscow, the smugglers, and the lie he was made to tell on arrival. Rasmussen animates the interview and leaves the truth of the voice underneath, producing a refugee memoir with the intimacy of a confessional.
