The Empire

"Patch you up, all nice like, splint, bandage your leg. All very civilized actually. But then. Then. We hand you over."

Helmand in the height of summer. Gary, a British soldier, and Hafizullah, his Afghan colleague, guard an injured young prisoner, Zia, found in the heat of battle. Gary wants answers, Hafizullah just wants to make it through the day and Zia thinks there has been a big mistake. Sur...