OCEAN OF PEARLS
Ocean of Pearls is a story of a Canadian Sikh surgeon who struggles with the inequities of the American Health system and ultimately his own identity.
As a Sikh man with a beard and turban, Amrit Singh is often the target of racial profiling. But when he sees his dreams of becoming Chief of Surgery at a state-of-the-art transplant center in Michigan dwindle because of his appearance, Amrit goes against a tradition he's maintained his whole life and cuts his hair. Hiding this decision from his girlfriend and family in Toronto is only the start of a series of compromises Amrit finds himself making as he deals with hospital politics and health care injustices. When his compromises result in the death of a patient, Amrit begins to re-examine the value of the religious traditions he'd turned his back on.
