‘Narcotics was the answer to my forlorn childhood…I was wrong, Baba,’ Nikita confessed, ‘It’s a curse.’
Nikita, a feisty girl from Florence, meets an ascetic in the marketplace while on a UN mission in hilly regions of North India. Captivated by the mesmerizing tune from his flute and a strange appeal, she befriends him. Together they take an arduous challenge of emancipating a tribal village, forced into opium cultivation, from clutches of drug mafia -