once she's there, she befriends majid, who's played by shivan raina, and they both discover that theirere friends. she always thought, noor always thought that her father had abandoned the home, but it turns out that both their fathers seem to be part of the disappeared. they are people who have been taken away by the authorities and their fate is unknown. now, the interesting thing about the film is this, it is essentially two separate films intertwined. one of them is a coming of age story, and i think advantage is that stuff really brilliantly. i mean, i love a good coming—of—age movie, and i think this has great performances from the two young leads. the other side of it is a much more advertently political drama, which, for me, works less well because it involves a level of dramatic contrivance that i didn't buy into. that said, it's made for a very restricted budgets, and with an awful lot of, you know, passion by everyone involved. so i think that even the parts that it failed, it was worth celebrating the part of it that works, and for me, the part of that that works is the rel