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Episode 1 - Finding Naim Meet Elham Milani, an Iranian medical student who has just landed in South Africa. A first time traveller, Elham anxiously scans the busy airport for the person who's supposed to pick her up. As she tells the story of how she ended up here, she realizes a pushy taxi driver has been following her all the way to the curb side. |
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Episode 2 - A Call From Home Elham is welcomed into her surprising host family, when a call from home stirs up painful emotions. |
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Episode 3 - Playing Cat and Mouse Emotions intensify when Elham finds her significant other turning down her call for someone else. But Elham has no time for insecurities and tries to wash them down with orange juice and corn meal as she prepares for her first day at school. |
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Episode 4 - A Taste of Home On her first day at university in South Africa, Elham feels that for the first time in her life she may actually be able to fit in. But just as she's soaring on high hopes, enter her new professor who makes sure to remind her who she is and exactly why she's here. |
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Episode 5 - Laying Low Is it just her imagination or is Elham's professor treating her differently than all the other students? Staying under his radar and laying low is the strategy she hopes will save her. |
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Episode 6 - Being Different Elham's approach seems to be working until a Zimbabwean lecturer causes her to rethink her "duck-and-dive" strategy. Elham decides to face her demons in an elevator. |
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Episode 7 - A Bit Too Clean During a weekend at an orphanage, Elham teaches kids about cleanliness. One young boy takes the lesson too far and Elham has no choice but to call on the one person she's been avoiding as much as she can. |
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Episode 8 - The Test The day of her final clinical exam arrives but Elham questions the diagnosis every one else seems to be agreeing on. When she's dismissed from the examination hall, the last thing she's in the mood for is yet another surprise. |
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Episode 9 - The Decision Elham is suffering through a Skype conversation, when her professor calls her into his office to discuss the outcome of her finals and hits her with a bomb she did not see coming. |
DR. ELHAM is a weekly drama series about Elham Milani, a medical student from Iran. Barred from studying in her own country, Elham enrolls at a South African university. She travels to Johannesburg to take her finals, leaving everything she knows behind. But from the moment she arrives, Elham faces one surprise after another, wondering if her past will eventually catch up with her...
