Hava's story sets the tone for the film by showing how little girls are brought in to fit the traditional role. Out of the blue, they are expected to have a different mentality for religious and social reasons. It was heartbreaking watching Hava as she keeps checking the shadow of a stick, indicating the end of her childhood. The second story revolves around Ahoo, a married woman who takes part in a beach side bicycle race. Besides competing with the other cyclists, Ahoo has to contend with men on horseback trying to persuade her to come home.
Bicycles are the devil's instruments and a woman's place is at home, they say.
Her husband, her father, tribe leaders and her brothers all try to dissuade her from completing the race, but Ahoo tries to push on. Although the final scenes of Ahoo's story are powerful and her persistence admirable, I thought that this chapter needed a lot more editing. There were just too many repeating scenes for no other purpose than to fill time. It had a good message, but a bit too long in its delivery. In the third and final chapter, we get to know Hoora, an elderly woman who travels and seeks out what she has missed all her life.