A middle-aged Afghan fruit seller in Calcutta who befriends a young Bengali girl, reminding him of his daughter back home. He is sentenced to eight years in prison for stabbing an abusive customer. Upon release, he finds the girl grown up and marrying, accepts her family's help to return home, and realizes his own daughter has likely forgotten him.
Rahmat projects his love for his own daughter onto Mini, treating her as a surrogate child.
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