What Will People Say
“Sent to a country she's never known… she must risk everything to break free.”
Sixteen year-old Nisha lives a double life. At home with her family she is the perfect Pakistani daughter, but when out with her friends, she is a normal Norwegian teenager. When her father catches her in bed with her boyfriend, Nisha's two worlds brutally collide. To set an example, Nisha's parents decide to kidnap her and place her with relatives in Pakistan. Here, in a country she has never been to before, Nisha is forced to adapt to her parents' culture.
This film feels like a suffocating embrace, a desperate struggle for selfhood against crushing expectations. It's a tense, heartbreaking journey of a young woman caught between two worlds, fighting for her own identity in the face of immense pressure.
