Tensions run high near the Indo-Pak border immediately after independence of India in August 1947 when the country is being partitioned with a new country called Pakistan. Sikhs living in this border town have heard numerous stories of Muslims killing, raping, and looting other Sikhs, Hindus, and Christians, and many of whom are their friends and relatives. Enraged at the loss of law and order, they plan their own attack on a trainful of Muslims leaving British India. The train is overcrowded with thousands of migrating passengers, who are even perched on the windows and the roof of this train. The plot is to fell those seated on the roof of the train with a rope tied across the start of the bridge and kill them. But there is someone among the villagers to foil this horrific plan.
—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)