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Dawn, a California teen who has run away to New York, tries to contact her foster mother Louise, a Red Cross doctor in Pakistan, following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and instead reaches Louise's assistant, Johar, a refugee from Afghanistan, and the two form a bond that gives them both hope and courage to face the future.

A young Afghan girl, Najmah, befriends an American woman, Nusrat in Peshawar, Pakistan, after Najmah flees her native Afghanistan during the 2001 war; and together they begin a long journey to locate their missing loved ones after the war ends.

Fourteen-year-old Shauzia, an Afghan refugee living in a camp in Pakistan, determines to find a way to fulfill her dreams of seeing the ocean and beginning a new life in France.

Presents a short study of what it is like to be a refugee living in America, and follows the experiences of Mohammed Nazari, a young sixteen-year-old boy who, with his mother and siblings, came to this country from Afghanistan.

An Afghan boy struggling with the realities of his life in a refugee camp finds strength in his training as a carpet weaver, creating a tapestry of roses that helps him cope when his sister is hurt.

Farah Ahmedi, the victim of a land mine when she was just twelve years old, tells about her childhood in Afghanistan, a country trapped in war her entire life, and discusses the challenges she has faced as a result of losing her leg, and in trying to adapt to living in the United States.

"Sonita was born in a refugee camp in Pakistan after her family fled Afghanistan during the war in the early 2000s.