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An aspiring social media influencer and a displaced refugee risk their unlikely friendship in the maelstrom of online celebrity.
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Maggie (early 30s) is desperate to be a celebrated journalist. If only she didn’t have to churn out as many words as possible as a freelance copywriter to survive. She does have a regular column in a serious-ish magazine –writing reviews on the latest beauty fad, however. There’s scope for meatier assignments, if she could only get the chief editor’s attention.
Following other people online, she regrets not having an edge – she’s not even dyslexic, for god’s sake. What can she do in today’s “this happened to me / I have this difference” kind of world? The migrant crisis gives her the opportunity to become one of those first-person journalists, by taking in a refugee into her own home and blogging about the cultural exchange experience. In comes Rima, Syrian and Muslim and anything but helpless and unsophisticated, but she puts on whatever traditional goat-herding version Maggie wants to write about so she can stay out of the refugee centre. Eventually, Rima’s pride and fact-abiding persona makes her blow up about the whole charade.
A hint of the real friendship that could be between the two women goes out the window with the possibility of a book deal from Maggie’s coveted editor – about Rima and the popular online story. Maggie’s offer of splitting all profits with Rima is too hard to pass, but Rima insists it has to be the real her. Of course, Maggie can’t risk the book deal to anything as dull as reality, so keeps building on the story from before.
As dismissive as Rima is about social media, she finds out about the portrayal through friends, and turns the tables on Maggie in the guise of the most Borat-like version of herself Maggie could have never imagined – on live TV.
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