On her wedding day, Maryam is ready to make her escape. Again. With her fiancé nowhere to be found and her family in a frenzy, Maryam is more than ready to ditch the whole affair. But when her fiancé, Ali, appears and helps her escape, she's left wondering what's going on.As Maryam and Ali embark on a journey to freedom, they're forced to confront their feelings for each other and the expectations of their families. With Ali's quiet support and Maryam's stubborn determination, they navigat...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in a Kuwaiti household, must be in want of a husband. And so the search starts, not with a glass slipper, but with an interrogation. A Kuwaiti woman sits through several meetings with potential candidates. Will any stick on for the next stage of courtship? For those not living in Kuwait: one of the ways a woman meets her prospective husband is for the man's family to call the woman's parents for an initial meeting. He will come ov...