Post 9/11. Lakshmi, a beautiful Muslim girl flees to NY, rejects her religion and works as an exotic dancer for survival.
Once uprooted a sapling may grow but will the new soil taint the fruit, poisoning those planting it?
Choosing between doctrine and survival, trapped in a culture thousands of miles from her homeland, Lakshmi attempts to comprehend the cataclysmic events shaping her life.
Her father, prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice to protect loved ones from ravishes of a civil war, unwittingly places his daughter in another form of conflict.
Isolated and subject to increasingly desperate conditions, a daughter must choose between maintaining the ideals and ideology of her past or embracing a risky but seductive Western culture that will offer the freedom necessary in order to survive.
The price is steep. Lakshmi risks the loss of her family, community and culture in order to pursue an uncertain but alluring future. Afraid for her life, she must make the choice while protecting her father and family from the damning truth.
Share the shocking, often bitter, and sweet taste of the unusual fruit borne from a life uprooted.