Soul mates from birth, Karim and Raheen finish one another's sentences, speak in anagrams and lie spine to spine. They are irrevocably bound to one another and to Karachi, Pakistan, a city that is violent, polluted, corrupt, vibrant, brave and, ultimately, home. As the years go by, they let a barrier of silence build between them until they are brought together during a summer of strikes and ethnic violence and their relantionship stands poised between strained friendship and fated love.
