Jasira is a 13-year-old Arab-American who leaves behind her self-centered mother in favour of living with her stern Lebanese father Rifat. Rifat lives in a modest, suburban Texas home next to a racist reservist and a hormone-driven African-American teen who quickly becomes Jasira’s boyfriend. As America launches their initial invasion of Iraq, Jasira finds herself caught up in a sexual awakening of potentially explosive consequences. Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty screenwriter Alan Ball makes his feature directorial debut with this screen adaptation of author Alicia Erian’s controversial novel “Towelhead”.