BROKEN VERSES

In 1986, Pakistan''s greatest poet was found brutally murdered - beaten to death by government thugs.

Two years later, his lover, fearless activist Samina Akram, disappears. Her daughter, Aasmani, has always assumed her mother simply abandoned her - since she had left so many times before to follow the Poet into exile.

But now, working at Pakistan''s first independent TV station, Aasmani runs into an old friend of her mother''s who hands her a letter written recently, in the Poet and Samina''s secret code. As more letters arrive, Aasmani becomes certain that they will lead her to Samina.
Despite menacing signs, disbelief from her family and worries of her new lover, Aasmani decodes the letters and searches for their source.
But if she manages to locate it, will she find what she''s looking for?

Merging the personal with the political, Broken Verses is at once a thrilling journey through modern-day Pakistan and an intimate mother-daughter story that asks how to forgive a mother who leaves.