The story is a very powerful telling of the impacts that the partition of India had on the people living in the erstwhile India. Through Ghulam Ali, the author manages to convey the pain that the people felt on both sides of the border and how religion was used as a tool to push people into doing something they wouldn’t usually do. Using letters, the condition of both the countries is told, as Ghulam narrates the events from Lahore and Zahira presents the events from the Indian side.