Stray Dogs

A couple of little kids (a brother and sister) living in Kabul of Afghanistan save a dog-said to be belonging to foreigners-from some children who want to harm him, and refer to the city's prison. The prison guard tells them that visiting hours are over but they claim that they are not visitors but prisoners. The guard asks why they are outside the prison and the kids say: "We are night prisoners." After a physical inspection they are taken to the cell and it becomes clear that in fact it is their mother who is a prisoner and since her kids have no place to stay they have been permitted to stay with their mother at nights. The next day when the prison superintendent finds out, they are refused entry to the prison and beg in vain to be let in. They are told that the prison is not an orphanage or shelter for homeless people but it is where criminals are kept. So in order to have a shelter to live they try to commit a crime...