A young fable about childhood innocence amid the realities of battle is ready towards the rugged panorama of Kashmir, so lengthy a flash level for the territorial claims of neighboring India and Pakistan. The title character, an eight 12 months previous mountain boy, typically hears distant gunfire. However it isn't till he goes on a quest to reclaim his beloved donkey, which has been confiscated as cost of his poor household's money owed, that he's drawn towards a violence he has no capability to grasp.