Jamal, a 10-year-old Pakistani Muslim, mistakenly crosses the border between India and Pakistan and finds an uncommon ally in a Hindu Brahmin, Bhola. Indian troopers descend on Bhola's village trying to find the so-called terrorist who crossed over. Bhola's neice, Rani, insists they can not let a Muslim into their Hindu residence. With Bhola and Rani grappling with the implications of harboring a Pakistani and their deep-set prejudice in opposition to Muslims, Jamal's solely hope is the humanity shared by a individuals separated by synthetic boundaries a very long time in the past
