Kashgar; the Silk Road city on the edge of the merciless Taklamakan desert. When a bowl of peanuts tumbles from a market stall on a Kashgar side street, nobody could imagine that it will reverberate around the world. Ismail's little brother is arrested by the Chinese authorities. As the elder boy of a fatherless Uyghur family, young Ismail knows that he must somehow act to save him. He and his rag-tag gang of friends devise a daring...