The conflicting values and mores of East and West are personified in the problems of Nisha, a first-generation Norwegian teen who isn’t always willing to embrace the traditional expectations of her Pakistani émigré parents. Drawing on her own harrowing life experience, writer/director Iram Haq (I Am Yours, PSIFF 2014) intelligently and sensitively probes the problems of a character who is caught between cultures. When we first meet her, pretty 16-year-old Nisha is living a double life. Outside the house, she appears to be a normal, well-adjusted, Western values-oriented high-school girl, but at home, she acts the role of dutiful Pakistani daughter. One night, her father discovers her boyfriend in her bedroom. Although they were only kissing, her parents go ballistic and exile her, against her will, to the home of relatives in Pakistan. Eventually, traumatized Nisha settles down and finds some pleasure in exploring the culture of her ancestors, but scandal seems to find her despite her best intentions.

In competition for the FIPRESCI Award.