Break up with your girlfriend. Fly to Iraq. Save the world (or at least try).

Dr. Nadia Amins academic career is stuck. Her love life? Even worse. So when her provocative article on the rehabilitation of ISIS brides sparks a job offer from the United Nations, she says yesmostly to escape London and a humiliating breakup. Next stop: a deradicalization program in a dusty refugee camp in Iraq.

But nothing goes as planned. Bureaucracy is a maze, the aid organizations are more performative than productive, and the job quickly becomes less about saving the world and more about surviving it. And then there’s Sarasharp, guarded, and maddeningly inscrutablewho becomes Nadias fiercest challenge and her only real reason for staying.

As Nadia’s idealism begins to fray, one reckless decision changes everything.

Bitingly funny, whip-smart, and emotionally raw, Fundamentally is a fearless exploration of belief, power, and the impossibly messy work of trying to do good in a world that rarely rewards it.