Kandahar's "plot" follows the Afghan-born Nafas on her journey to Kandahar to save her sister before she commits suicide. Yet it is not really a narrative piece of fiction, nor is it a documentary. Instead, it is a nontraditional combination of the two, for better or for worse. It overlays a fictitious plot on top of striking documentary visuals. There was no real acting to speak of; people seemed to just read scripts, unaware of the meaning behind the words they were saying. More than half the film depicts the tragic Afghan situation and not the "plot." The "plot" seems to have been constructed for the sole purpose of exposing such terrible conditions in Afghanistan. We see people robbed on the highway, women treated by doctors through a cloth and a "translator," and legless mine victims in Red Cross camps running on crutches to get first choice on parachuted prosthetics. That is where the power is, and that is where it should stay. This movie should be a documentary, not a fake docudrama. It's an informative, eye-opening movie that should be seen, but the narrative storyline was unwelcome and hurt the movie overall.IMDb link: http://imdb.com/title/tt0283431/