Baland Iqbal – författare

When Fatima comes across a few pages out of her late mother''s diary, she finds her way to Zosia Kasanova, an old woman living in Karachi. Together, they live through her experiences as a victim of the brutal war crimes from the second World War before she came to Pakistan. At the same time, Fatima''s lover, Asad, moves to Kashmir to join the escalating war between India and Pakistan. Fatima begins a journey that takes her from the romantic dreams of Rabindranath Tagore to the nightmarish world of Adolf Hitler to find her destiny in the missing pages.

Idrees leads a mob in mauling and burning a Christian man alive whom they have labeled as a blasphemer after he claims that his prophet was Jesus, not Muhammad. The violent episode is witnessed by Usman, Idrees'' young son, as he peeks behind a broken wall. The child is traumatized by the incident and starts having hysterical fits.

Sweethearts Sania and Dalip, living in Toronto, are students going to a Canadian university; she is an Ahmadi Muslim from Pakistan, and he is a Sikh Indian. Her parents violently object to the relationship.

In Afghanistan, Professor Wahidi is haunted by a violent past: his family was brutally murdered by extremists a long time ago. In the present, he receives death threats over the phone and through letters for his revolutionary publications. He writes books and articles that belittle the purpose of religion and nationalism; his work earns the ire of the Taliban.

Three countries, three cultures, three stories.

Who decides the right to believe, to love, and to live?