Growing up in Karachi, Mariam Khuhro behaves as expected. Giving up her dreams of becoming a travel journalist, she marries a boy from a well-off family and moves to his parents' house, where she is patient and compromising just like Ammi taught her.A few years later in Tehran, Mariam is able to become a student again. She gets a second chance at life - and love - when her husband dies and Mariam has an unexpected chance to find out who she was meant to be, all the while, navigating a new language and culture.What kind of life - and partner - will she choose, now that she has a choice?