Today, as she gazed up at the sky, she wondered why people called the sky a roof. If it was a roof, then why did humans feel so unprotected beneath it? As she fell into a deep sleep without a struggle, she missed the roof of her old home terribly.
A young woman finds herself in Pakistan along with her father at Partition. Her father dies and she is forced to find her own way in the new country, her life demonstrating that while history happens to men, and men happen to women. This one woman, however, does manage to carve a path for herself against all the odds.