A House Named Shahana

The story follows the turbulent life of Dipa, a young divorced woman whoserefusal to suffer silently makes her a misfit in a rural town in 90s Bangladesh. She is raised by weak and ineffectual parents in a peculiar family dynamic dominated by her maternal uncle and aunt. Under their authority, Dipa is married off to a widower in England over a trunk-call wedding ceremony to protect her from the dangers of teenage passions. Dipa suffers marital rape, refuses to settle and escapes. Seven years later, Dipa has become a transformed and confident professional, yet she still must fight the social stigma and the burden of "family honour" to live on her own terms