Pakistan and India share a border which didn’t use to exist until the creation of Pakistan as an independent state. This film tells a story of a young Muslim boy who unintentionally enters India by crawling under a fence, trying to retrieve a cricket ball. Frightened by gunshots fired by the border patrol, he manages to cross a field filled with land mines and is taken under the wings of a Hindu school teacher and his niece. The fear of cultural and religious contamination as well as the longing for brotherhood and unity are depicted simply and powerfully in this touching and heartwarming film.