muslim converts

Nineteen-year-old North Carolina surfer and skateboarder John Jude Parish, having been introduced to Islam and Arab literature by a young Brooklyn woman, defers his entrance into Brown University to move to New York, where he studies classical Arabic and meets a Pakistani man who convinces him to travel abroad to further understand Muslim culture, which results in John moving closer to becoming radicalized.

A woman in New York awakens knowing, as deeply as a mother's blood can know, that her grown son is in danger. She has not heard from him in weeks. His name is Jonas. His girlfriend, Vic, doesn't know what she has done wrong, but Jonas won't answer his cell phone. We soon learn that Jonas is isolated in a safe-house apartment in New York City, pondering his conversion to Islam and his experiences training in Pakistan, preparing for the violent action he has been instructed to take in 31 hours.