Outsiders

<p>For some people home is nowhere. They feel out of place--they are adrift the stranger in the crowd. It's as if they are forever walking around in shoes that don't fit. <p/>Can they find a home imperfect as it may be? Sometimes all it takes is a place at the other end of the world--or a person. Nita a teacher in Kerala is desperate for a better-paying job and accepts one in Dubai. It is the 1990s and Dubai is just becoming a boom town. Everything is changing. But Nita struggles to adjust to the city as an immigrant. Her job as a live-in tutor for a young girl puts her in an unfamiliar servile role with a wealthy family. Nita starts telling the child's mother a story from ancient India where Darius a sailor arrives at an Indian port seeking his fortune. As she tells this tale making it up as she goes she finds that she's no longer alone. <p/>This is a two-headed story--the narrators Nita and Darius are nested inside each other like Russian dolls. They are both outsiders in unfamiliar places. They make dangerous choices that take them to the breaking point. And as Nita feels her safety unravel it does for Darius as well.</p>