Get up. Go to work. Report on a few news stories. Here and there. Walk back
home. Have dinner with grandparents. Sleep. Repeat. Laila’s everyday to-do list
had nothing exciting happening. A simple girl, with a bad temper and boisterous
but beautiful curls, Laila leads a simple life in Lahore, Pakistan. Until she lands in
Udaipur, India, the neighboring but rival nation to do a feature.
Royal tales, historic festivities, and a vibrant culture that confirms she’s far away
from home, Laila meets many strangers on her journey. One of them being
Gulab.
As the journey draws to an end, it becomes clear that Laila’s life intersects with
Gulab’s in tragic and irreversible ways. Her life becomes an intersection of the
realities of the blood-soaked partition, gut-wrenching atrocities, and a past she
never knew she had.
