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Dance of the Baccha
Dance of the Baccha
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What starts as a comedy of errors turns into something deadly serious when a young veteran struggling to overcome a quirk of nature that puts him at odds with his gender is drawn into a world of shadows and lies.
At age twenty-six, Jordan Allen Wallace is anything but your typical NYU sophomore. In addition to being a decorated veteran with a tour of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Jordan is cursed with a physical appearance that often cause people who do not know him to often mistake him as a female. With the exception of his sister Emma he has no friends to speak of and little in the way of a social life. That begins to change on a Fall Sunday when Emma's boyfriend Conner MacMasters, an agent assigned to the FBI's Counter Terrorism Division, imposes upon her hospitality by bringing along an friend to enjoy an afternoon at Emma's watching football.
Conner seizes upon Jordan's unique qualities and status as an NYU student to help him solve a problem that has the Bureau stymied. While Jordan understands the need to cooperate with the FBI by informing on a noted professor at NYU, the role he is required to play presents him with both opportunities and problems that are unusual and demanding.
The man the FBI wishes Jordan to inform on is Dr. Wahab Khalje, the son of a former Afghani tribal chief. Khalje, who fought the Soviets with the mujahideen, came to America to study in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal from his country. After earning his doctorate at NYU, Khalje took up teaching there. While Khalje's strident criticism of American policy in the Middle East caused the Department of Homeland Security to list him as a person of interest, his habit of associating with men suspected of having connections to al Qaeda and the Taliban leads the FBI to fear that he is interested in doing more than simply protesting. Repeated failures to infiltrate Khalje's tight circle of friends in an effort to discover what, exactly, he is up to leaves the head of New York City's FBI Counterterrorism Division little choice but resort to methods that are progressively more desperate and unconventional. In Jordan, Conner believes he has found a perfect, if somewhat novel solution.
That solution involves an ancient tradition practiced among some of Northern Afghanistan's ruling elite. Known as bacchá, adolescent Afghani males dress and behave as females in order to entertain their host and master. Like his father, Khalje is fond of the old ways, in particular bacchá. It is this weakness that the FBI hopes to exploit using Jordan.
In agreeing to work with the FBI, Jordan finds he must come to terms with his own issues of sexuality and gender. Doing so is difficult as he discovers time and again that he has entered into a ruthless struggle without rules, one in which neither friend nor lover can be trusted.
At age twenty-six, Jordan Allen Wallace is anything but your typical NYU sophomore. In addition to being a decorated veteran with a tour of duty in both Iraq and Afghanistan, Jordan is cursed with a physical appearance that often cause people who do not know him to often mistake him as a female. With the exception of his sister Emma he has no friends to speak of and little in the way of a social life. That begins to change on a Fall Sunday when Emma's boyfriend Conner MacMasters, an agent assigned to the FBI's Counter Terrorism Division, imposes upon her hospitality by bringing along an friend to enjoy an afternoon at Emma's watching football.
Conner seizes upon Jordan's unique qualities and status as an NYU student to help him solve a problem that has the Bureau stymied. While Jordan understands the need to cooperate with the FBI by informing on a noted professor at NYU, the role he is required to play presents him with both opportunities and problems that are unusual and demanding.
The man the FBI wishes Jordan to inform on is Dr. Wahab Khalje, the son of a former Afghani tribal chief. Khalje, who fought the Soviets with the mujahideen, came to America to study in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal from his country. After earning his doctorate at NYU, Khalje took up teaching there. While Khalje's strident criticism of American policy in the Middle East caused the Department of Homeland Security to list him as a person of interest, his habit of associating with men suspected of having connections to al Qaeda and the Taliban leads the FBI to fear that he is interested in doing more than simply protesting. Repeated failures to infiltrate Khalje's tight circle of friends in an effort to discover what, exactly, he is up to leaves the head of New York City's FBI Counterterrorism Division little choice but resort to methods that are progressively more desperate and unconventional. In Jordan, Conner believes he has found a perfect, if somewhat novel solution.
That solution involves an ancient tradition practiced among some of Northern Afghanistan's ruling elite. Known as bacchá, adolescent Afghani males dress and behave as females in order to entertain their host and master. Like his father, Khalje is fond of the old ways, in particular bacchá. It is this weakness that the FBI hopes to exploit using Jordan.
In agreeing to work with the FBI, Jordan finds he must come to terms with his own issues of sexuality and gender. Doing so is difficult as he discovers time and again that he has entered into a ruthless struggle without rules, one in which neither friend nor lover can be trusted.
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