Kimberley Motley is an African-American-Korean wife, mother and former beauty queen who left her husband and three children in the US in order to work as a defence lawyer in Kabul. Kimberley came to Afghanistan for the money and has sacrificed much to reach her goals: her children only see her three months a year. What was initially a financially driven personal decision has quickly developed into an obligation towards the underdeveloped Afghan legal system, which blends Afghan Law and Sharia Law. The human rights abuses, the lack of women rights, and the presence of corruption in virtually every institution has determined her to change her pattern of work and combine paid with the pro bono work which she enjoys, although ‘it doesn’t pay the bills.’ Today, Motley is the first and only foreign lawyer who litigates in Afghanistan’s courts. For over five years now, human rights cases and troubled expats have motivated her to stay, but personal threats and general conditions in the country make it harder for her to continue her work. In spite of all that, she remains fearless: a stubborn woman who talks casually about bombings and gunfire while trying to make a living as a one-of-a-kind lawyer.