1948年，孟买。饱受争议的知名作家Saadat Hasan Manto因出版多部针砭时事的作品而引起公众愤慨。印巴分治之后，他不得不离开孟买这座深爱的城市，前往巴基斯坦的拉哈尔。他对言论自由的信仰以及对社会边缘人的关怀使得他的流放之旅成为一场悲剧，更使他将心中所有的力量都投注到笔尖之上。
Honor's sole focus is getting into Harvard. Willing to do whatever it takes, Honor concocts a plan to take down her top three competitors, until things take a turn when she unexpectedly falls for her biggest competition.
Alec lives under a repressive society that monitors his every movement, while working at the central avatar store where customers can design and be their idealised online persona; a symbol of the EyeLight based technological revolution that Alec viscerally resists. His isolation is punctured by the arrival of Jade, an equally rebellious figure but one who plays the system far more strategically. Their unfolding forbidden relationship will push the two of them to the very brink. Meanwhile, the politically motivated gameshow, known as ‘The Draw’, rapidly increases in popularity, ominously evolving into an all too real hunt which threatens the desperate contestants′ lives all in the name of entertainment.
