Baba Balkar Singh had tread the path of terrorism, but after experiencing the horrors of a life on the run, he realised the futility of terror, and the carnage and turmoil that it left behind. He realised that the answer did not lie in the taking up of arms but in the healing of wounds.

Baba, the terrorist turned into Baba, the reformist, rehabilitating the children and widows of other terrorists who had been gunned down by the police during the Khalistan movement. He tried to piece together their fragmented lives and more importantly, shielded them from straying onto the path of revenge terrorism.