At a café table in Lahore, a Pakistani man converses with a stranger. He tells him what has brought him to this fateful meeting... Among the brightest and best of his graduating class at Princeton, he was snapped up by an elite firm and thrived on New York and the intensity of his work. For a time, it seemed as though nothing would stand in the way of his meteoric rise to personal and professional success: the fulfilment of the immigrant's dream. But in the wake of September 11, he found his position suddenly overturned.