Caitlin is a 17-yr. old girl living with a brother and sister and their army major single mom, Tela, who came to the U.S. from the harsh mountains of Pakistan as a child. Tela demands high academic achievement and grueling physical training in martial arts from her family. Caitlin still harbors a consuming anger toward Tela for shipping her back to that primitive world of an ancestral home for a whole year, after Caitlin made her horrendous mistake. But if Caitlin thought life would now become a lot easier when Tela is deployed to the war in Afghanistan, and she and her siblings are dispatched to live with their divorced dad in a new urban town, she has much to learn. Aggressive boys, risky party culture-her disciplined savy and martial arts skills are challenged as she struggles to become the girl she wants to be.