In Karachi, Rafina, who is living in poverty in with her mother and brother, gets a job at a huge beauty company through her Aunt Rosie. Quickly noticed by her superiors as a beauty, she is given work as a model and promises of having the world at her feet. It's her big chance, but the job incurs the disapproval of both her family and her more traditionally-minded fiance, as tension and distrust of the West begin to rise around them in the city.