Beena struggles to follow her dream of the freedom to choose her own destiny and the love of her life, but her overly dramatic and meddlesome Indian mother Billo, wants to marry her off.
Haunted by the nightmares of abused children, a young American woman, Rony goes to Pakistan to investigate Child Labor. When she is captured by a child slaver in Death Valley, her handsome Pakistani guide, Ben Hur tries to save her.
A second generation Pakistani-American arrives in his family's ancestral town, to discover his place in the world and confronts a beautiful historic culture rife with deeply ingrained gender inequality and subjugation of women.
