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Zakir works in a prison as a censor. His days are spent reading other people's letters, carefully blacking out everything not meant for the eyes of those serving time. In order to escape the stress of his job, he signs up for a creative writing course. One day, however, he is given a tricky assignment - to select a photograph and write a fictional account inspired by the picture. He decides to use a photo he finds enclosed in one of the letters. But Zakir's interest in the woman depicted shifts beyond the assigned task and becomes a compulsive preoccupation to help her, regardless of whether her cruel fate is real or just a figment of his imagination.
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For the last few years, I have been in correspondence with one of my relatives, a political prisoner. I knew that my letters were being monitored by officials in prison but I did not think much about it. One day, however, I noticed that many lines from the letter were scratched out. When I visited my relative, I asked him why he had done this. He replied that it was not him, but probably the letter commission who had censored something they had found objectionable.
