It's a usual Friday afternoon in Kabul. Residents are praying drinking shopping. At exactly 2:36pm the bomb explodes.
Merza an Afghan parliamentarian receiving ominous threats thinks he's the target. Alive but shaken he stops to aid the wounded. Alec an American journalist who shouldn't even be in Kabul looks for a story. With other reporters he rushes to the scene. Elyssa a Canadian human rights lawyer hassled by a judge gets locked down. All afternoon she searches for her missing boyfriend.
Taking place over twelve hours on January 28 2011 The Finest Supermarket in Kabul is inspired by true events.