Halima, a single mother living in a close-knit, East African community in Calgary, is thrust into a precarious situation when she makes a last-minute decision to stop her 13-year-old daughter Salama's trip back to Kenya to be circumcised. Halima knows that choosing to flout tradition may cost her everything; her community, reputation, and way of life. Once Salama's secret relationship is exposed by Neema, the Grande Dame of the community, Halima is forced to demand the very thing that she has been conditioned to disregard: autonomy, and sexual liberation, for her daughter and herself.