New Sitcom: Pakistani Muslim Exchange Student in U.S
Justin Tolchuck is a sensitive 16-year old trying to make it through the social nightmare of high school in Medora, Wisconsin, with the help of his well-meaning mom Franny, aspiring-entrepreneur dad Gary, and his beautiful and popular younger sister Claire. Hoping to find a friend for Justin, Franny signs up for the school's international exchange student program. Picturing an athletic, Nordic teen, Franny hopes this new friendship will bestow instant coolness on her outsider son. But when the Tolchuck's exchange student arrives, he turns out to be Raja Musharaff (Adhir Kalyan, "Fair City"), a 16-year-old Muslim from a small village in Pakistan. Raja is a sweet young man, but to the Tolchucks and everyone else in Medora, he's also just about as foreign as a foreigner can be.
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