Who can you trust when you cant trust the people closest to you?

When the film begins, Nisha is a fully assimilated Norwegian teenager living a normal life in Oslo.

She spends time with friends playing basketball, partying, and even has a redheaded Norwegian boyfriend.

While her parents continue to be fully committed to their traditional Pakistani culture, Nisha goes through the motions.

Her father Haq (Adil Hussain), the owner of a convenience store, is loving.

He brags about his childrens grades and coaxes them into dancing with him on his birthday.

That all changes one night when Haq discovers Nisha and her boyfriend alone in her room.

Almost instantly, the Haq that the audience was introduced to becomes a man filled with rage.

You are now a mother.

For many years, I was writing like an angry young girl and it took me a while.

It was a big challenge.

First of all, I didnt want to write this story.

I wanted someone else to do it.

[I thought] maybe this [would be] the last time.

He said sorry for everything he had done to me and he had cancer.

I needed to hear from him how he felt.

Im not like my parents but I can understand, somehow, fear the fear of losing your child.

Thats what I can find some similarities [in].

If we didnt have those scenes, we really wouldnt sympathize with him or like him at all.

We would just [see] him as a terrible man.

Theres so many reasons this love cant work.

They really come from two different worlds.

How was the process of making the film and reliving this moment from your past?Its a journey.

This is a story Ive wanted to tell since I was young, and Ive finally done it.

Its not a secret anymore.

All this makes me happy.

Dialogue is used sparingly in the film.

When Nisha speaks, she is often ignored or put down.

Every time you get put down, you get more and more insecure, especially at that young age.

There are several shots of hands throughout the film.

Im a fan of body language of people.

Why do you think this film is important in 2018?Its so important.

Maybe I shouldnt do it.

But then I did a little research, and I figured out this problem is so common still.

Its still going on in Norway, Sweden, Germany, Italy.

We need to talk about this social control, what this social control does to people.

I really want these young girls to have a different life and to recognize how social control works.