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When eleven-year old Shabanu, the daughter of a nomad in the Cholistan Desert of present-day Pakistan, is pledged in marriage to an older man whose money will bring prestige to the family, she must either accept the decision, as is the custom, or risk the consequences of defying her father's wishes.

Having relented to the ways of her people in Pakistan and married the rich older man to whom she was pledged against her will, shabanu is now the victim of his family's blood feud and the malice of his other wives.