![]() Safe houses shelter inter caste and inter faith couples who are in danger of being attacked by their families. ![]() A young married couple at a government safe house in Rohtak, Haryana in July 2015. As she grows from an unwilling bystander reluctant to cover a story to a deeply involved champion of Meena’s rights, Smita goes through an emotional journey that brings her face-to-face with judicial, social and individual failures. As she follows the case of Meena, a Hindu woman attacked and ostracized by her own family and village for marrying a Muslim man, Abdul, Smita comes face to face with complex social norms and, in the process, pieces together a story that threatens to unearth the painful secrets of her own past. ![]() ![]() Smita, an Indian-American journalist, whose family had moved from Mumbai with no intention of ever returning, reluctantly goes back to India to cover a story. ![]()
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