Kadidja, a young Muslim woman from Chad, sells newspapers on a street corner outside of Grand Central Station every day. Her family sent her to the United States to have a better life, and to escape the dangers of the Janjaweed Militia. She studies business at a local community college, and lives with her uncle, a very strict traditional Muslim man. Kadidja is stuck between two worlds, as a student she is now a part of a world of American women who study to build a self-designed independent life for themselves, and the world of her abusive uncle who controls her with his limited views of the role of a Muslim woman in our society.