Some sins are not forgotten. They wait.
In the cold winter of 1975, a boy crouched behind a crumbling mud wall and saw something he would never be able to unsee. In that alley, near the frozen creek, his courage failed him—and his life split into two: the boy he had been, and the man he became.
Twenty-six years later, a phone call from a dying friend reaches across borders and oceans, carrying a single invitation: there is a way to be good again. What follows is a journey back to Kabul, to kite-filled skies, to the harelipped boy who loved him more than life itself, and to the terrible secret that has haunted him ever since.
For you, a thousand times over.
But can love redeem what cowardice destroyed?