Games without Rules tells a history of relentless internal struggles and external interference in Afghanistan throughout the last 200 years. Afghanistan has a complex binary culture. For generations, the modernizing attitudes associated with global civilization and religious conservatism have played a game of tug-of-war. Foreign interference has disrupted the game, bringing with it war, poverty and resentment. These internal divisions and external pressures have caused great harm to the Afghan people, and their impact has affected the whole world.