Mamik in Shikhan, one of the people already visited by the photographer in 2001. Mamik hesitates to open the heavy wooden gate to the courtyard. She is alone in the house where she lives with her brother's family. She is blind and spends a lot of time her own. Her childhood friend Farzana has married and moved to another village. No one now guides Mamik through the village.
For a few years Mamik attended Koranschool to learn the holy book by heart as many blinds do in Afghanistan. In the village they call her "Qori", an honorific for those who can recite the entire Koran. But Mamik only managed to study two and a half chapters. She can no go to the madrassa to attend classes. Even though everyone in the village knows everybody else and no woman wears a burqa, it is still considered unbecoming for a young woman to walk around if she is not accompanied by a related male. The commander of the village tried to help Mamik. He took her to the eye hospital in Taloqan, days travelling from Shikhan, but nothing came of it.