Biology professor and her students, including a convent nun go on a field trip, and stay at a Public Rooming House of a male group, led by retired colonel. But fate has other plans for them.

An apolitical poet abandons his love to become a freedom fighter — only for fate to bring them face-to-face again years later.

A poor Afghani leaves his family behind to earn a living as a dried fruit vendor in India. Profoundly homesick, he befriends a young girl who reminds him of his own daughter. Meanwhile, the locals are distrustful of all foreigners.