Ghulam, his wife and their baby have shifted elsewhere after an armed conflict involving bombs exchanged between the terrorists and the military. Dr. Kaul, who had come to Srinagar for a medical conference is persuaded by Ghulam to come to his village home to take a look at his very sick child Jigra and suggest a cure. “Why did you not leave with the others?” asks the doctor, to which, Ghulam’s response is, “do you leave your old father alone to die when he is old and ailing? This house is like an old parent who has given me shelter and brought me up, how could I leave it? I am not a coward like the rest.” He switches on the lights in every home in the village, though they are all empty to make the village appear alive. His perception of Life differs radically from the doctor’s. These come across only through subtle suggestions and hints.