The animation of the film is very well done, the colour palettes leaning towards browns and yellows and toned down colours as it takes place in a desert type environment, but throughout the film, Parvana tells a fairy tale-like story to various characters, which uses more limited animation, but a wider colour palette to help distinguish the two. The fairy tale Parvana tells is also used to help explain what happened to her elder brother, blurring the lines between the various purposes of telling the story.
The main plot centres around Parvana's father being unjustly arrested by the Taliban, leaving no older male relative in their family (which the Taliban requires for a woman to go outside), so Parvana begins dressing as a boy to be able to get supplies. The more she sees the freedom of being a male in their society, the more she enjoys just going out with a friend, Shauzia, who is doing the same. The film ends on the beginning of the American war with Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom/Freedom's Sentinel.
Seeing into a culture, both the original and the corrupted version, that is so heavily demonised by western media was fascinating to me, as the most I had previously seen of the culture of Afghanistan was human right's violations, war, and poverty, but the Breadwinner showed what life and the culture was like before the Taliban hijacked it and how it still survives.
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