Khan is a Mumbai Muslim who suffers from high-functioning autism. He lives in America, San Francisco, and marries a single mother Hindu woman. After the terrorist attack on the 9/11 assault of the World Trade Center their relationship and their lives change drastically.

Khan experiences a nightmare on an airport as he gets detained by the airport security, his illness and the consequent strange behavior make him look suspicious, but as Khan says that he is not a terrorist few believe him. Watch as one man goes on a quest to clear his name, looking for the U.S. president himself to do exactly that.

It’s one harrowing, heart breaking story, witnessing this man deal with his affliction on a day-to-day basis, and having the same illness create chaos in his life as people let their racial prejudices get the best of them. Watch Khan as he struggles to make some order of his messed up life, trying to hold on to the relationship with his wife.
Watch My Name Is Khan trailer, and see if there’s anything you can do to stop these things from repeating!