melbourne (vic.)

Sixteen-year-old Amal makes the decision to start wearing the hijab full- time and everyone has a reaction. Her parents, her teachers, her friends, people on the street. But she stands by her decision to embrace her faith and all that it is, even if it does make her a little different from everyone else. Can she handle the taunts of "nappy head," the prejudice of her classmates, and still attract the cutest boy in school?.

Jesse Martin tells the story of his experiences after setting sail from Melbourne, Australia on December 7, 1998 on his thirty-four foot yacht "Lionheart," to become the youngest person, at the age of eighteen, ever to circumnavigate the globe solo, non-stop, and unassisted.