DAY ONE Presentations

No husband, no job, no future: Divorce is a life sentence for Feda, a thirty-year-old Afghan American woman pushed aside by her conservative community. Taking control of her life, she uses her one marketable skill as a bilingual immigrant, returning to her birthplace as an interpreter for US forces in Afghanistan. On her first day of her first job, the US forces raid the house of a bomb maker, his pregnant wife, and their little girl. Feda soon realizes the job that has given her personal freedom from her own broken household requires her to break apart someone else’s. When the pregnant woman is accidentally knocked over and goes into labor, Feda must deliver the breech child as the soldiers are not allowed to touch a local woman.In 2009 the director served his second tour of duty as a Captain in the US Army. This story is inspired by the interpreter with whom he served.