At midnight on his 10th birthday, a boy scours the lesser-known Kolkata streets in search of a father he’s never met, carrying a letter he can’t read.
The period is just before the Indo-Pak war of 1971. A coal mine laborer is returning home with his newly wed wife. They missed the bus and chose to walk to get home. The story of two characters and life emerges in the experience of the new couple’s new acquaintance and journey.
