Amina, a Pakistani-American girl, starts her first day of middle school in the suburbs of Chicago. She quickly finds out, it's not all what it's cracked up to be and having hairy legs doesn't help.
After a tightly wound but promising Ivy League graduate moves back in with her disappointed mother in their Section 8 apartment, she is forced to babysit a peculiar and precocious child and consequently helps him manage his bullies as well as her own.
