Twenty-year-old Thinesh spends her days working as a receptionist at the office of a non-profit organisation in Kelana Jaya, Selangor.
She smiles as she greets visitors at the front desk, answering phone calls and tending to those with questions.
In the office, she is confident and poised, sure of herself and of the work she does.
Outside the office, though, life is very different.
Although the confident veneer continues, Thinesh secretly dreads going about her daily activities as she lacks one very important item – an IC.
Thinesh was born and raised in Kedah but is considered stateless due to the simple fact that she knows nothing of her biological mother.
Without an IC, she lives in constant fear that she will be apprehended by the police and asked questions to which she has no answers.