She meets Anderson’s son, A.J., who bullied her in high school. Nora attends the court as the charges are filed. Anderson confesses to the hit and run but claims that it was accidental. It belongs to Anderson, the owner of the bowling alley.

A nighttime hike ends in a kiss and they begin dating.Ĭoleman finds security camera footage of a street near Driss’ diner and finds the car responsible. Efraín struggles with his guilt even though Nora has posted a substantial reward for any information. Jeremy and Fierro attend the anger management groups. The diner reopens but Maryam struggles to concentrate on running the business. Many of Nora’s partners have cheated, and she wonders whether this is connected to her father’s infidelity. She replaces all the bedding in the cabin as she reexamines her image of her father. Nora discovers that her father was having an affair with a woman named Beatrice. Coleman interviews Anderson, the owner of the bowling alley next to Driss’ diner. He has been in love with her since high school but his military past seems to perturb her. Nora runs into Jeremy in a nearby bar and they flirt. Nora moves into her father’s desert cabin. Salma is envious and the two sisters squabble. Nora discovers that her father left a large sum of money only to her in his will. Jeremy bails his friend Fierro out of jail for smashing up his ex-wife’s car and insists that Fierro go to an anger management support group. Efraín’s wife Marisela pressures him to go to the police but he refuses. He bought the diner with the insurance money. Driss’ first business, a donut shop, was burned down after 9/11.

The family moved to America amid political violence in 1980s Morocco. Nora believes the attack was racially motivated. His mother died when he was young, and he took over as head of the family when his father became an alcoholic.ĭetective Coleman interviews the family. They reconnect and he provides emotional support. Jeremy passes by and finds Nora alone on the porch. People visit the Guerraoui household to pay their respects. An undocumented migrant man named Efraín witnessed the attack, but he does not want to come forward because he worries what will happen to his family if he is deported. A police officer and former schoolmate of Nora’s named Jeremy Gorecki hears about the attack at work. She travels back to her small town to mourn with her mother Maryam and her sister Salma. A struggling musician named Nora Guerraoui learns that her father Driss has been killed in a hit and run accident outside the diner he owns.

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