Why does the film focus only on girls and not boys?
Rashed: I have been directing films for many years and I have come to like working with women and girls. I like the ease with which they narrate their lives, express their feelings unlike boys and men in general. Through your experience and contact with these girls for a long time, what are the causes that drive them to the street? Rashed: There is not one particular factor; one can say that poverty in general drives them to be out there on the street. They lack the material resources that would allow them to grow up in the way that they had dreamt of; there is also divorce or family breakups; each girl has a separate story. What I like about them is that they did not like what life had to offer them; they wanted a different sort of life. I have been very impressed with that desire in them – rejecting one reality and looking for another. They are looking, of course, with the wrong means and they are young – the age group ranges from 10 to 22 – they want to play and to be free from all
