塔利班残酷统治下的阿富汗，平民百姓尤其是女性过着水深火热犹如地狱一般的日常,生存,生计,日子。倔强的小女孩帕瓦娜（莎拉·乔德利 Saara Chaudry 配音）随爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲（Ali Rizvi Badshah 配音）外出挣钱养家，不仅目睹了爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲被昔日的学子,门生,弟子,学员辱骂羞辱，更和亲人,亲属,眷属,家属目击了爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲遭到非法逮捕的一幕。家中有病弱的妈妈,母亲大人,娘亲,老妈妈、成年的姐姐以及嗷嗷待哺的弟弟，年幼的帕瓦娜只能剪去秀发，伪装成男孩走出家门，踏上生死未卜的养家之路。在此过程中，她遇到了同样扮成男孩的昔日伙伴，也与一名沉默魁梧的塔利班分子成为伙伴,好友,挚友,密友。当战争的阴影再度逼近时，帕瓦娜想方设法要找到下落不明的爸爸,父亲大人,爹爹,老父亲，将他带归家,返家,还家,归宅中……
　　本片根据黛博拉·艾里斯的同名小说改编。

　　In a world tormented by the Horror, the citizens of Birdabad accept the egg-eating tyranny of Kondor and his carrion crew as the price of safety. Gathered in exuberant daily ritual around the great Egguilibrium mechanism, which is tended by the silent owl, Hasan, they unthinkingly trade their eggs for fruit. Hupu, a beautiful and reckless young bird, is determined to save her egg from this terrible fate and with the help of Hasan, who is her husband, and a magical seed, she opposes Kondor and disrupts the system. In the wild chase that follows Hupu, Hasan, Kondor and a tiny busy-body chick called Mi, find themselves flung out of Birdabad into the jaws of the Horror. Terrified, confused, murderously angry with each other, this ill-assorted band form a reluctant alliance with a most peculiar guide, who promises to help them get home, if they will help him reach the Sun. Only Hupu knows that their guide is blind. Travelling from a vast modern city to the top of a volcano, down the ...