At one point in the film, one of the central characters utters “All parents are liars.”
‘The Valley’, presumably titled due to its setting in the Silicon Valley, California, narrates the story of first-year college student Maya (Agneeta Thacker) — a second generation Asian American — striving to cope with cultural differences. Neal Kumar (Alyy Khan), a successful and affluent self-made immigrant; strugglesto raise his children — Maya and elder daughter Monica (Salma Khan) the traditional way. While Maya is withdrawn and introverted, Monica is easygoing and gregarious. When an internal conflict causes Maya to take her own life, the grief-stricken father takes it upon himself to discover the reasons behind her daughter’s death.
It’s a film with a unilateral theme: the episodic subplots are structured in the form of the various flashbacks of Maya’s growing up and university life.     Director Saila Kariat — who’s written the film too — has assembled a motley group of actors from the sub-continent as well as Hollywood. Suchitra Pillai as Maya’s mother Roopa and Samina Peerzada as the housekeeper give restrained performances while Salma Khan hasn’t much to do. Alyy Khan, on whose shoulders the film largely rests, is stiff and is barely able to portray the emotions of a distressed parent. The technological driven culture, however, is well depicted through Neal’s relationships with his various colleagues.
Showcased at various film festivals around the globe and having won Best Film at three of them, The Valley is an honest attempt by the US based  debutante director at delineating the trauma of teenagers.