This photography project examines how left-behind policies affect Tajik children psychologically. It centers on seven-year-old Guli and her sister Bijiani in Tashkurgan, a regulated border city. Here, a system of border guard posts manages the population, requiring most adults to serve in remote, long-term posts. This shifts traditional herding duties to children and the elderly, forcing kids into early self-reliance as their parents are stationed at distant borders. There, I met Guli, who shared with me her method of "seeing" her parents with closed eyes: placing a photograph under glass, and staring at the image for three minutes under direct sunlight. She explained that this imprints the photo in her eyes, allowing her to visualize her parents when she closes them. Whenever the image fades, she reflects intense light through the glass into her eyes to make the photo clear again.When I took them to the hospital, the doctor said they had never encountered such a condition，the children's retinal conditions were severely compromised. In their effort to "see" their loved ones, they are permanently damaging their ability to see the world.