The film takes place in India. It's about a blind boy named Mohammed. He is released from a special school in Tehran for summer vacation. Mohammed's father is ashamed and feels like Mohammed is a burden. His father picks Mohammed late and tires to convince the head principle to keep Mohammed for the summer. The head principle believes that its a bad idea and forces Mohammeds father to take him home.
Since Mohammed's father is a widower. He now wants to marry a local girl and has been preparing for the wedding. He comes to the girl's parents with gifts. So they approve. He tries to hide the fact that he has a blind son because he fears the girl's family will shame him.
Mohammed roams around the hills of his village with his sisters. He touches and feels everything around him, counting the sounds of animals, and imitating them. Mohammed goes to the local school with his sisters and reads the lessons from his textbook in Braille, which amazes the children and the teacher.
The father fears that his brides family with be ashamed of this "bad omen." So his father takes him away and leaves him with a blind carpenter who agrees to make Mohammed like him. The blind carpenter mentors the boy who wants to see God. Mohammad says God doesn’t love him and thus made him blind and tells him how his teacher told him that since they are blind, God loves them more. He also tells him that God is everywhere and that you can feel God. The carpenter then just says that he agrees with his teacher and walks away.
Mohammed's grandmother is heartbroken when she realizes that the father has given Mohammed away to a blind carpenter. So she then gets sick. She leaves the family home but the father Hashem tries to convince her to stay back, questioning his destiny, wondering why he lost his father as a young boy, asking why God has taken away his wife and cursed him with a blind boy, and asking his mother what she did for him. Mohammed's grandmother faints on her way so Hashem carries her back home. Eventually Mohammed's grandmother dies. The bride's family sees this as a bad omen and the wedding is called off.Mahammed ends up dieing and his father realizes that he loves him.
This was an inspiring movie that teaches you to love and treat everyone as you wanted to be treated and not to send them away ungraciously. The movie helps people to understand others that aren't like them.
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