In a cotton-farming village in Sudan, Nafisa — a fifteen-year-old girl from Sudan — learns about life and love under the watchful eye of her grandmother, the powerful village matriarch Al-Sit. When a young businessman from abroad arrives and threatens to disrupt their way of life with a new development plan, Nafisa finds herself at the center of a power struggle to determine the village’s future. As she discovers her own strength, Nafisa must balance modernity and tradition in her defiant pursuit of personal freedom. She and her community will never be the same again.

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