The eve of Obama's election finds Aaron--an American filmmaker--and Naveed-- his friend and translator-- in a small Afghani village. Although the two had initially planned to create a documentary film about Opium, Aaron's focus shifts when he meets Hafiz, a young dancer of Bacha Bazi. Aaron is both fascinated and revulsed by this ancient tradition, in which young boys dance in women's clothing and are then sold for the night to the highest bidder. Alternating between Dari and English, dance and language, fear and desire, Bacha Bazi brings a critical lens to American altruism and explores the often fatal consequences of inter-cultural mis-understanding.
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