Four Parties and a Funeral — Special Edition

Said Hossain spends most of his time away from home at a boarding school. When the librarian from his hometown, Mrs. Barnes, dies, he has to return to New Crosshaven for the funeral, and to spend the rest of the summer. Unfortunately, being back home makes it much harder to avoid running into his former best friend, Tiwa Olatunil, as well as to tell his Bangladeshi parents that, after all, he prefers to be an artist rather than a doctor.

Tiwa, for her part, doesn't know what led Said to start ignoring her, but she thinks it must have been that fancy school he attends and, even knowing that he will be around town all summer, she is also determined to pretend he doesn't exist. Besides, she already has a lot on her mind, between mourning her recently broken-up family and the help she has to give her mother in organizing the next party at the Islamic center.

When the Islamic center, however, catches fire, it is discovered that the mayor was already planning to demolish the building. Now, Tiwa needs Said's help to change the mayor's mind. And Said, on the other hand, needs a project to present at the animation school, but without anyone knowing…