Delbaran

Just beyond the Afghanistan border sits Delbaran, a small Iranian town where the sounds of war flow down from the nearby mountains. Khan owns the lonely service station frequented by a human menagerie of truck drivers, merchants, opium smokers, and illegal immigrant smugglers. Kaim, his helper, is a young Afghan refugee, hardened like the mountains by the horrors he’s seen. Friendless and without family, he must make his own way in an adult world as barren as the landscape in which he lives. Sometimes, as though from an oasis, he is able to laugh and once again be a little boy.