Director Sarah Gavron and screenwriter Abi Morgan team to adapt author Monica Ali's award-winning novel about a young girl from Bangladesh who finds the spark in her soul slowly fading after traveling to London for an arranged marriage. As a child, her mother always told Nazneen that she was a survivor. Now, as a young adult, Nazneen is leaving behind her mother and sister to start a new life in London with the her modest London prison as her sister Hasina embarks on a series of exciting adventures back in Bangladesh. But just when Nazneen determines to keep her head down and accept the harsh blows that life continues to deliver, a sudden knock on the door finds her fate taking a completely unanticipated turn. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide