A New York-based Egyptian imam helps a dying Christian teenager convert to Islam, only to be plunged into a political scandal that threatens his job, his faith and his relationship with his daughters.
New York-based imam Omar Metwally develops an unlikely friendship with the homeless teenager who sleeps outside his mosque. When the boy asks Omar for spiritual solace after he is fatally stabbed, Omar provides him with the Muslim creed of faith and then a Muslim burial. But then the boy’s estranged parents show up demanding their son be given a Christian burial and Omar refuses. The ensuing political scandal threatens Omar’s job, his faith and the relationship he has just started building with his young daughters. Confronted with the possibility of losing them, Omar is forced to choose between his mosque duties, his Muslim ideals, and his bond with his daughters.
