María is a young journalist used to making an impression. Disillusioned after the break-up of a relationship, she decides to accept a position as a correspondent in Kabul. There she will find a different world, at times strange and magical, blue and yellow, divided and inscrutable, populated by women she can't pin down and whom she can't quite understand. A world where many other characters come together in the melting pot of a devastated city in the process of reinventing itself, like Mahmud, a guerilla who has just come down from the mountains, where the war smoulders on, who hopes to reinvent himself and longs for the childhood he essentially never had, lost between kites and grenades; he offers his services as an interpreter to Simón, a United Nations coordinator, trapped in his own little world as a Western man who feels he has something to prove. And then there's Ibrahím, a carpet seller scarred by his memories; and Jana, an old lady...