This screenplay follows Neha, a British Pakistani woman raising her two daughters, Kal and Renna, after the death of her mother. The story is divided into three parts: Mother, which follows Neha dealing with loss and motherhood; Sister, which focuses on Kal's first love with another girl, May; and Daughter, where Kal comes out to her mother but struggles with Neha's reaction. The screenplay explores themes of family, identity, love, and acceptance within a British Pakistani household led by strong women.

1. SHE
AN ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
By Hibah Afnaan

2. CONCEPT
A British Pakistani household of women and girls raised by
mothers and born to be daughters
Neha’s mother has just passed away, she must continue to
raise her two daughters while trying to understand the ever
developing role of motherhood.
The films is divided into three parts part of
MOTHER follows Neha’s journey through loss and motherhood
and racism in her workplace.
SISTER focuses on the youngest daughter Kal (17) through loss,
sisterhood, first love and sexual exploration and identity.
DAUGHTER brings all the characters together as Kal comes out
to her mother and finds acceptance amongst her sister Renna
(18) and her cousin Leah (16), but Neha struggles to come to
terms with this.

3. NEHA
Age – 45
Born in Pakistan and raised in
London.
Full time accountant at a small
bank in the city.
Divorced and a single mother of
two teen daughters. She is close
with her sister and has a small but
tight friendship group.
Strong, firm, picky, a little closed
off and secretly a romantic.

4. KAL
Age – 17
Born and raised in London.
A full time student with a passion
for art, plans to study art at
university.
Not to great with friends outside
of her sister and cousin whom she
considers her best friend.
Creative, timid and a little anxious
at times, scared but fiercely
seeking her truth and identity.

5. RENNA
Age – 18
Born and raised in London.
Full time student about to start
university, studying computer
science.
Popular and always busy with
work, projects and friends, though
she only truly feels herself with
her family who always come first.
Loyal, sharp and smart, strong
and a little angry at the world,
reckless with herself but
protective to others.

6. LEAH
Age – 16
Full time secondary
student with a passion for
media and the wellbeing
of the plant.
Best freidns with Kal as
they attend the same
school and are in the
same class.
Sharp tonged often
mistaken for bitchy but
funny to a flaw, party
animal but spiritual.

7. MAY
Age - 17
Born and raised in Lodon.
A full time student who
wants to become a model
and photographer.
Recently moved to Kal’s
school after her transition.
Witty, calming and
charismatic, confident of
who she is now but lonely.

8. AESTHETIC
INSPIRATION
The art of Shahzia
Sikander and and
Amrita Sher-Gil, 70s
and 80s Bollywood
films and colours.
Pakistani, Indian
patters and music.

9. MOTHER
Neha is in mourning, her mother has just passed
away after a long bought of sickness. Her
daughters comfort her at a funeral but she is in
mental agony. Against the advice of her friends she
returns to work within a week.
At work she tries to talk through her emotions with
hwe friend but the head of her division over hears
her reminiscing over memories and calls her
Islamic and Pakistani upbringing bazar and
controlled.
This comment provokes Neha to reassess her role
as a mother and how she is raising her two
daughters. At home she treis to get on but every
small action and words that come from her
daughters provokes her. On a particulary hard
night her daughters are making a rackit singing
along to a video she storms in their room throwing
her mug at the wall in anger while shouting at
them to shut the fuck up. A small shard of the mug
cut deeply into the back of Kal’s head the sight of
blood sends Kal and Renna into shriek's, in that
moment Neha’s anger is gone.
She takes Kal to hospital holding her tightly as she
gets stiches, she whispers sorry into her ear and
cries into her shoulder. Kal smiles and stocks her
mothers hair as Renna watches from the hospital
bed.

10. SISTER
Neha takes Renna the university, she will be
attending after summer. Kal and her cousin Leah
tag along. Upon arriving Renna leave to catch up
with some friends but in her absent Kal has a panic
attack. In frustration Neha gets annoyed and leaves
Kal alone. Renna finds her sister and calms her.
The girls are close and Renna reconsiders her move
to a university for her sister but together they
savour the last few months before she moves.
One night the girls are staying with their cousin
Leah while their parents are at an overnight
wedding trip. They decide to go to a house party.
Their Kal meets May. The two bond instantly over
protective parents and lack of freedom. Kal hates
the crowded house so the two decide to take a
walk. The girls end up walking all the way back to
Leah’s house and at the end of the night, in the
early morning they kiss and in that moment Kal
begins to fall in love for the first time.
Though Leah and Renna were worried about Kal the
moment she tells them where she was the sisters
share excitement and stories of the night.

11. DAUGHTER
Kal and May are spending more and more time
together, Kal eventually meets Kal’s mother
and her grandmother both who are widely
loving and respectful of May’ sexual and
gender status and a lesbian transgender
women. Kal begins to consider her mothers
upbringing and how she could possible come
out to her mother.
Kal and May decide to take their relationship
to the next level that night becoming
girlfriends and having sex, this is Kal’s first
sexual experience.
The day after Kal comes out to her mother.
Later she stands at ther grandmothers grave,
Leah and Renna join her. Kal cries admitting
her coming out did not go well, instead of
recalling the event she tells her sisters how
she wanted the conversation stating at the
very end ‘I wanted her to tell me that she
loved me and always would, because I’m her
child, cus I’m her daughter’. The girls confirt
her, the hold each other tightly.