Does My Head Look Big In This?

Someone has reported the girls leaving school, so Mr. Pearse gives them a week of lunchtime detentions. He asks Amal to stay behind and tells her he will not be informing the principal of this, because he understands the stress she must be under because of her religion. He is being supportive in a clumsy way.

Amal finally gets through to Leila, who sounds subdued and flat, and she tells Amal that her family has brought another boy for her to meet.

In the evening, Mrs. Vaselli invites Amal for tea and cake, and Amal sees she has taken out her best china. Mrs. Vaselli reveals she has called her son and that he and his family might soon come to visit.

As Amal arrives home from school, she finds Leila’s parents in her living room. Leila has run away from home. Her mother tells them that they have found an excellent match for her, a man who lives in America but comes from the same village as Leila’s mom, but Leila refused to speak to him. Amal’s mom tries to explain that Leila is “still so young and her duty,