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A fair skinned boy, named "Asim," recently relocated to Los Angeles from Pakistan in the pursuit of happiness. His name is pronounced "Ah-Sim" but everyone mispronounces it as either "Aseem" or "Awesome." Asim doesn't have any friends or a girlfriend so for fun he enjoys watching romantic Bollywood films and longs to find the love of his life. He currently works at Fair House Bank where he becomes friends with the teller and banker, Mark and Sue. After a mishap at the Bank, Asim finds himself making new friends and doing things he's never done before. Will Asim find love and happiness in America, or will he simply end up working the night shift at 7-11?

Set in 1989, during the historical week in which the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. The film is a poignant story about a unique relationship between a grandfather and his grandson before the boys Bar Mitzvah. The grandfather teaches the boy a small lesson about growing up, while the boy helps the grandfather, a holocaust survivor, open up and tell his story, for the first time.