Sunday, 7 October 2001. At 18:27 h local time, the first cruise missiles hit their targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Jalalabad: „America strikes back".
On this fateful Sunday, a billboard painter in Rawalpindi is worried about his wedding day, two men on the Amazon are happy about rising gold prices, an unemployed musician plays in the Paris subway, a South African miner works an extra shift, an American in China writes a letter to his wife in Ohio, an Egyptian pop star is supposed to sing in Washington...
It is like the story of the Butterfly in China, v.Tho v.rith the flap of its
sets a storm in motion on the other side of the world. Only that one can also view the story from another perspective: falling bombs in Afghanistan can lead to shortcomings of domestic bliss in Paris, closed doors for concert-goers in Washington, a Pakistani woman never seeing her fiance's face a-gain, or a woman in Ohio trusting her husband, for no reason at all.