"The Neighborhood Storyteller" reveals the life-changing power of literacy on women and girls in underprivileged communities told through the lens of Asmaa Rashed, a Syrian refugee young mother, raised in a community where the destinies of girls were predetermined. Asmaa overcomes her adversity by leading reading-aloud circles in her home at Zaatari refugee camp determined to empower adolescent girls and enable them to see beyond the limitations of their circumstances.