Plot Summary: “Beyond Honor†is a heart-stopping, emotionally resonant meditation on gender roles and the dynamics of power within a small, claustrophobic immigrant family in Southern California. It is the story of Sahira Abdel-Karim (Ruth Osuna), a young Egyptian-American woman torn between two distinct worlds: one that is haunted by a harshly violent memory and tightly bound by tradition, the other that we hardly realize exists because we are so much a part of it – that of contemporary America and its promise of personal freedom for all. But the American dream finally collapses for the entire Abdel-Karim family in a shocking event of barbaric proportions.