Sabah is a 40ish Muslim woman living with her family in Toronto. As the unmarried sister, she is responsible for taking care of mother while her brother earns the living (and micromanages the finances) and the other sister takes care of her daughter. What unfolds is an immigrants struggle to balance family and family culture while transitioning to the new culture. This is not a new story. But Sabah tells the story well, showing that there is not a simple answer to assimilation and that every individual in the drama is pulled in different directions for different reasons. I like how we are led down the path of finding some characters familiar and sympathetic (while others are not) only to find (like in life) that we do not have the whole story.
4 stars (out of 5)
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