Ask Me No Questions

A portrait of immigrant life in contemporary America and the coming-of-age tale of two Bangladeshi sisters. Fourteen year-old Nadira and her eighteen year-old sister Aisha live in Queens, N.Y. The sisters are part of an invisible population of illegal aliens, teenage girls hoping to realize their dreams of becoming legal citizens in their adopted land. In the aftermath of 9/11, their lives are thrust into sudden upheaval when their parents decide to flee to the Canadian border to seek asylum and they live with the threat of being deported to Bangladesh, a country they hardly know.