The Immigrant: Stargazer

The Immigrant: Stargazer starts in a town outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. It starts in the eighties, where apartheid still exists. Saesha a young girl grows up with her siblings in a segregated area during Apartheid, an area where Indians live. The early residents of her town were forcibly removed from another area, and the town where Saesha lives is the only place where Indians can live legally. Saesha is Hindu, still six or seven years old. She does not know what Apartheid is. She faces a number of things while growing up; she struggles with growing up in the Hindu culture during Apartheid, where Indians are classified as Black. Saesha wants to be free; to dream just isn’t enough, she wants to live her dreams. Saesha is living in the world of apartheid, but within that world is another world. She struggles as an Indian girl growing up in a western world. As Saesha grows up, she faces tremendous changes, her eyes open up to the world around her, her culture, her dreams, her family, and her country. She comes to reality, and faces difficulties at school. Nothing seems to make sense to her and her existence during her darkest moments. In the hardships she faces, the tools to her life are staring at her in her face. She doesn’t know it, and can’t see through the worthless person she thinks she is. The question is who will she become? How will she get there? Is it written in the stars or is it in her...?