In this daring short drama which is based on a true story, a young woman is brutally attacked, and the responsibility of restoring her family's lost honor is left in the hands of her younger brother: a 13 year-old boy. Lurie’s film is a revelation: highlighting a disturbing phenomenon that is increasingly common, frequently unreported and rarely punished. Whether called honor killings, dowry deaths or crimes of passion, the outcome is the same: women are twice victimized, first as targets of the crime and then sought out for revenge.

Poetic, haunting and beautifully crafted, IN THE MORNING captures the dramatic confluence of events—social, cultural and political—that have made honor killings a worldwide crisis that crosses cultures and religions. Lurie’s dramatic, poignant and compelling piece brings much needed attention to what has become an urgent and global human rights issue.