NORA is a young Muslim on the brink of adulthood, waiting for her college decisions and helping her single mom take care of her younger sister. On her way to school, she stops to fill gas and finds a middle-aged Muslim man, ALI, bumming cigarettes outside the gas station. She goes inside to buy him a pack of cigarettes. When she comes outside, she finds Ali in a compromising situation. Nora intervenes, and soon, she and Ali are zooming around town trying to come up with cash.

About the Filmmaker:

Sarah Mokh is a writer and filmmaker born in Lebanon, raised in Detroit, and currently based in NYC. She is a graduate of Harvard, where she studied English and Islamic Studies, and is currently a PhD candidate at NYU. Her screenplays have been supported and recognized by the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Stowe Story Labs, The Script Lab, ScreenCraft, Film Independent, Sundance, and others. She is a 2021 WarnerDiscovery Early Career Fellow, a 2022 Film Independent Episodic Lab Fellow, a recipient of the inaugural MPAC Hollywood Bureau Writing Fellowship.