Tasmida is a Rohingya girl growing up with her family among the lush rice paddies and golden pagodas of Myanmar's Rakhine State. Her idyllic life is stolen away from her when ethnic tensions against Rohingyas in her homeland reach a boiling point and force her family to escape across the Naf River to Bangladesh. Tasmida must learn to adapt to a completely foreign country and culture despite her young age in order to follow her dream of achieving academic success. Yet just when Tasmida settles into her new life, the world is again ripped out from under her feet when her family has no choice but to flee from Bangladesh to India, displaced for a second time. Tasmida's perseverance is put to the test as overwhelming poverty and discrimination against Rohingyas threaten her ability to attend school. She must fight as hard as she can in order to pursue her education as a refugee and accomplish her goal of being the first Rohingya woman in India to attend college.