Farhan Islam

Grieving the loss of his father, an aspiring violinist finds an old memoir in his new apartment. As he investigates the professor who wrote it, unsettling parallels force him to confront his identity and the choices defining his life.

Bathed in the flickering glow of a theater screen, a young boy watches in awe as a sea of strangers erupts into applause. That moment changes his life forever. As he grows, his love for cinema turns into an unrelenting pursuit-one that pushes him to create, to dream, and to chase the sound of clapping strangers. But how far will he go to hear it again and even if he does, is that the ultimatum?

At the stroke of midnight hour on August 15, 1947, in stark black-and-white, a wide-eyed child, a desperate family racing a partition train and a lone freedom fighter each bear witness to India's birth through joy, anguish and sacrifice.