Patma is a bright young girl who beams with positivity despite being born in a poor family. A consistent honor student, Patma also works at the market to help her struggling family. Seeing fellow Muslim kids in her neighborhood who do not go to school, she dreams of becoming a teacher in hopes of helping them someday. However, tragedy strikes as Patma's neighborhood is destroyed by a fire, including her school and her family and others evacuate to her former school because they have nowhere to go. After her family has lost everything, Patma's mother also loses hope and even discourages Patma from dreaming of a better life. It also does not help her that the kids at her new school bullies her for being a Muslim. How will she remain optimistic and driven even when her own mother urges her to forget about her dreams?
—anonymous