Fake Lives

Naina Sharma is a comfortably smug, Indian American doctor�s wife, whose life unravels after her husband suddenly mysteriously disappears. Wary of her next-door neighbor, Tobin Harvey, Naina nevertheless forms a bond with him despite her culturally ingrained racism, and as a result, the local Indian American �model minority� community � the desis�� shuns her. Naina�s situation worsens when she discovers that her seemingly perfect husband had a frightening past and that she will be facing deportation by the Department of Homeland Security. Her suspicion that something sinister lies behind her husband�s disappearance deepens. Grief, fear, and disorientation consume her. When Naina�s worst fears come true and ICE arrests and detains her, she meets Rani Yadav, a working-class, uneducated, single Indian woman, also ostracized by Naina�s affluent social circle. Together, they endure ordeal after ordeal until they are helped by an unlikely friend.� Determined to seek justice at every step of her way, Naina cannot avoid confronting her new realities, deciding whether to run from them or face them head on.