At the height of the USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1982, 1.5 million Afghans took a long journey to the border of Iran to flee war. Taghi Safari‘s parents were two of those refugees. In Iran, they built a modest existence as tailors. Their son Taghi was born there and has never been to Afghanistan. Yet he is unwilling to inherit the limitations of his parents’ refugee status in the land he grew up in. Taghi navigates outside the protective walls of his family to trace his identity and the doors to his future in the homeland he never knew.