In the middle of the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan, Aniqa Bano gives birth to a deaf girl, Narjis. Until then, she was unaware not only of the rejection and stigma attached to these girls, but of their very existence, hidden away in the shame of their families.
Sixteen years later, Narjis reads her mother's diaries, in which she describes the obstacles she had to overcome to build her school for the deaf.