Younger filmmaker Pankaj Butalia directs this sweeping movie about ill-fated love set in opposition to the epic canvas of India's partition into Hindu Indian and Muslim Pakistan. The movie opens with Lajma, a ravishing college trainer with greying hair, leaving Pakistan for her childhood dwelling in India. There she discovers that the house is in wreck, her ageing aunt is half senile, and her cousin Gautam is bitter and defeated. Flashback to 1947 when India splits in two -- the police power a proud previous Muslim man, alongside together with his grieving daughter-in-law, to soak up a few impoverished Hindus, Chand and Bhagwati, into their giant dwelling. Later, Chand's mute sister Lajjo arrives along with her younger daughter Lajma in tow. Affected by some unnamed previous trauma, Lajjo is ultimately shipped off to an asylum, leaving Lajma along with her uncle. Later nonetheless, Lajma, Chand's son Gautam and their neighbor's son Jamal all dwell and play with one another in Chand's huge advanced.