Hissa Hilal, a 43-year-old poe­tess and acti­vist from Saudi Arabia, tests her boun­da­ries in the dai­ly strugg­le for chan­ge. Veiled in a bur­qa, she gains inter­na­tio­nal fame at Abu Dhabi’s pres­ti­gious con­test “Million’s Poet” with her poems cri­ti­cal of ter­ro­rism and the ideo­lo­gies of fana­tic islamists.