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Sirens of Memory, Puja Guha

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Sirens of Memory

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Puja Guha

Mariam is pregnant and fleeing an abusive marriage as the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait begins. Leaving her husband for dead, she crosses the border and is evacuated with the help of Raj, using the identity of his dead wife so that she can be issued Indian papers. Twenty-five years later, Mariam is still living under the identity of Raj's Indian wife in the US. In an attempt to put her past to rest, she attends an event commemorating the anniversary of the invasion at the Kuwaiti embassy, where she is spotted by a miraculously still alive Tareq, who had believed her to have been killed in the invasion. Angry and obsessed, he begins planning his revenge. The confrontation that follows allows Mariam to make peace with her old identity and her past as a victim once and for all

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