Saba Qaisar survives being shot in the face and thrown into a river by her father and uncle, punished for marrying a man of her own choosing in Punjab, Pakistan. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's film follows Saba from her hospital bed through the legal aftermath, as Pakistani law allows victims' families to forgive the perpetrators, even when the perpetrators are the victim's own relatives. Interviews with Saba, her husband, the men who shot her, and local clerics and lawyers lay out how that forgiveness clause lets honor killings go effectively unpunished, since the family doing the forgiving is often the family that ordered the attack. The camera sits close on Saba's bandaged face as she describes the shooting and on her father as he explains, without much remorse, why he did it. The film builds toward the courtroom pressure Saba faces to pardon her own attackers, and shows what it costs a young woman to refuse. It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.