Surma Valley cultural squad

The year is 1960. Rongmon, a Bengali peasant who found his second home in Assam after Partition, is reliving the trauma. A proposal has been made to declare Assamese as the only official language of the state, and riots have broken out. But Haradhon, an Assamese farmer -- and therefore, Rongmon's potential enemy -- is all ears as the latter shares his sorrow. "We drink from the same fountain of love; our mothers shed the same tears," they conclude. "We will build the hut again."