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In Summer 2021 Kabul falls to Taliban, members of the Under-18 Afghan Women’s Football Team attempt a daring evacuation from their homeland.

As the Taliban claimed power in 2021 and banned women and girls from participating in sports, the members of the Afghanistan Youth Women’s National Football Team needed to escape their own country or risk being captured. What happened next is an extraordinary story of survival, sisterhood and the human right to privacy.