Fra forlagets omtale: Asad, an Afghani boy, is forced to leave his country. He sets off on a dangerous two-and-a-half year journey to Europe. On the way, he stops to earn money in a carpet-making factory in Pakistan and on a construction site in Iran. People smugglers -- paid with borrowed money -- guide him across deserts over mountains, past border guards and Taliban fighters. His journey ends in Sweden, a country he finds as alien as the moon. He starts school and slowly makes friends with three new classmates.