该片的故事发生在旁遮普动乱期间，那时长期有可疑恐怖分子活跃在旁遮普里。爱好和平与乐趣的旁遮普人经历了创伤之后，永远改变了他们的生活和观念。农民 Gurshan受过教育，为人谦逊，一人承担起一家人的生计，照顾他年老的父母亲，还有妹妹Guddi。经历了社会动荡，家庭出现了一些波折，命运再为他们的人生增添新的成员。许多美好的事物发生在这个小小的善良家庭里，随着时间的流逝，以前的旧伤口开始愈合，把痛苦遗忘。但是，随后而来的命运，在那一夜叩门，永远改变了他们家的一生，一个男人的爱国价值观念被打破，他的父母失去了他们的爱，而妹妹则留下了遗憾……

In 1984 the former Indian Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards, and since then the Sikhs have been a target of violent backlashes by radicals and the Punjab Police. During 1985 Gursharan Singh Soman lived a peaceful life as a farmer in rural Punjab, along with his elderly parents, Gurdev and Tejpal, and an unmarried sister, Guddi.