Hijab tells the story of a controversy in which three doctors from the subcontinent, two from India and one from Pakistan, get embroiled for conducting emergency Caesarean section surgeries on women of the Sanghaali community. The Sanghaalis are Muslim immigrants who believe that such a procedure is inimical to their women having more children. Their community leader, who is a doctor himself, is infuriated by what he calls the “cultural imperialism" of American healthcare. “It’s not just the current pregnancy that is important to the Sanghaalis…they care for their next ten pregnancies," he yells at the doctors at a meeting at the hospital. “They value the land more than its harvest."