![]() ![]() Smita is thrown into a whirlwind of emotion as she attempts to navigate not only Meena’s heartbreaking story and the inherent issues they illuminate for her homeland but also Smita’s own deep-seated traumas that lay hidden in that same land. When Smita arrives though, it quickly becomes clear that her coworker called Smita to India for a very different purpose: to take over coverage of Meena’s story. At first, Smita thinks her friend and coworker simply needs some help recovering from an emergency surgery, and Smita, though hesitant to return to the place of her birth, pushes her apprehension aside for her friend. ![]() ![]() ![]() An American journalist who was born in India and hasn’t returned since she left at fourteen, Smita is suddenly summoned to the country by her coworker who is stationed in India. Backed by a lawyer fighting to change the corrupt legal system in India, Meena presses charges against her two brothers-the men who burned her husband to protect their honor and hers. The woman, Meena, and her unborn child, though, survive the burning. A marriage between a Hindu and Muslim is nothing but dishonorable in their small Indian village. Honor begins with a newspaper clipping: a woman and her husband have been burned alive for their interfaith marriage. ![]()
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