Ghulam Ali is an Indian citizen who found himself stateless in 1947. Lacking the correct paperwork, he gets caught in a chain of arrests and deportation, crossing the border many times and eventually loses his sense of belonging and identity.

Set adrift by the partition of India, a displaced man faces bureaucracy’s cruel ping-pong games in Haseeb Rehman’s powerful and heartbreaking short. Examining the elusive idea of a homeland, the inventive animation lays bare the tragic irony of reducing national identity to a matter of paperwork.