Tahira Faryad is one of the brightest students in the seventh at the Government Girls Middle School Nizampura. She belongs to a very poor family of eight. Her father, not being a skilled worker, is mostly unemployed. He considers himself a burden as Tahira’s mother, a health worker, is supporting the entire family on her meager salary.

Tahira’s mother is determined to send her daughter to school at all costs. Tahira helps to defray her personal expenses by working in the evening, making little gift items or flower garlands. She dreams of becoming a doctor someday so that she can help the poor in her community.