What happens when the sexually liberated, university educated daughter of a fundamentalist Moslem couple living in the U.S. strays too far from the family’s strict moral code?

What happens when the sexually liberated, university educated daughter of a fundamentalist Moslem couple living in the U.S. strays too far from the family’s strict moral code? Sahira’s Middle Eastern born father still believes in the age old rite of female circumcision, which is endured by up to 130 million female children and teenagers each year and supposedly ensures a woman’s chastity by excising her genitalia. In Sahira’s case, the ancient remedy against carnal desires has an unexpected result which throws the entire family into turmoil.