Panah Gah, a women’s shelter home in Karachi, Pakistan, houses the mentally disturbed, homeless, discarded and disabled under one roof. ‘Haven of Hope’ follows three women who also volunteer there: an orderly, a nurse and a guard, as they step outside to confront their families and a society that has failed them. Rubina, a washerwoman abandoned by her husband years ago, learns that her estranged daughter, Masuma, is giving birth today, forcing mother and daughter to decide the fate of a newborn girl no one wants. Kausar, a security guard in her fifties, is an heiress taken by her wealthy brother to sign away her inheritance; realising she is being deceived, she resists a system rigged against her. Salma, a young divorcee, dreams of becoming a certified nurse to give her children a life beyond the shelter, but when she cannot secure an ID card without a male guardian, she is exploited by an employee, leading her to stand up for herself. ‘Haven of Hope’ completes a cycle of life and offers a rare insight into the resilience of outcast women living on the margins of a patriarchal society.