Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becom | dG1fdHZZUVltZzNfQ1U
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00:01Five, six, seven, eight.
00:05I dance because my grandmother danced.
00:08Movement is one of my only connections to my lineage, to my DNA.
00:16My identity is shaped by my parents.
00:19They come from two very different worlds.
00:23Your mother, she's always discovering things.
00:26Summer, put that back on.
00:28Ever thought about maybe temporarily giving in?
00:31You mean like converting to Islam?
00:33No.
00:34I think you look cute in a scarf.
00:36Play around with it.
00:37You gonna wear that to work?
00:38I have finally found something that makes me happy and you want to mock it instead of maybe learning something.
00:44Learning what?
00:45How to hide behind scarves and holy passages instead of just saying you want to be accepted for once.
00:50I didn't know you got down like that.
00:52Photos everywhere.
00:53You're a hashtag.
00:55I see some of my young Muslimas flaunting their bodies and using Islam as a way to be liked.
01:01But I say to you, young woman, stop before your photos become actions.
01:05I'm becoming someone I don't know.
01:07I introduced her to the truth.
01:09No, it is your truth, Jane. It is your truth.
01:12My mother throws God at me.
01:14But I was born to smoke a spider.
01:15She was born of clay.
01:17I may never see my mom again.
01:19She disappeared in a holy book for another day.
01:21I know what you did, Summer.
01:23We want each other. We both want each other.
01:25And a religion can't stop that. I'm sorry.
01:27I am a smokeless fire.
01:29I am a smokeless flame.
01:32They call him Jane.