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A sexually confused Pakistani Muslim teenage girl is falling in love with her female best friend in London, creating tension with her conservative family. The story follows the girl as she struggles with her sexuality and growing feelings for her friend, while her religious family tries to "fix" her behavior through conservative Islamic teachings, threatening to send her to Pakistan. In the end, she runs away to North London with her best friend to escape her family.

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One Page Draft Treatment

A sexually confused Pakistani Muslim teenage girl is falling in love with her female best friend in London, creating tension with her conservative family. The story follows the girl as she struggles with her sexuality and growing feelings for her friend, while her religious family tries to "fix" her behavior through conservative Islamic teachings, threatening to send her to Pakistan. In the end, she runs away to North London with her best friend to escape her family.

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One Page Draft Treatment

25 Word Premise:
Sexually confused Muslim Pakistani girl starts falling in love with her female best friend, but
will her feelings part her from her conservative family?

Target Audience:

 Multi-cultural, London based audience


 Aged 16 and over due to the controversial storyline
 Appealable to both males and females but particularly females as the main character
is a teenage girl and the storyline is based around feminism and homosexuality.

Outlining the Storyline:

 Story based around a young Muslim girl


 She struggles with the confusion of her sexuality as she gains feelings for her best
friend and begins to wander into a surreal world of her imagination.
 She finds it difficult to keep her feelings away from her best friend.
 Explorations of the background of her crush so the audience can make more of an
emotional connection.
 The Muslim girl’s family starts to worry about her and her behaviour as it doesn’t sit
well in a Pakistani, Islamic household.
 The family starts to console religious sources as a way to ‘fix her’ and put her on the
‘right path’.
 The religious sources are seen as the antagonists as they will be portrayed in a
negative light and against our main character.
 Her family threatens to send her to Pakistan as a way to stop her from straying from
her religion.
 The Muslim girl seeks protection and safety in her best friend and they run away to
North London.

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