[1] The film tells a deceptively simple account of tramautized schoolgirl's quest to her shoes, since, her school is reopening one and half months after the devastating Gorkha earthquake.

The government has announced that all educational institutions must re-open, but Ram is worried about the monsoon and the increased threat of landslides in his own village.

Ten-year-old Phulsiri is attending the funeral of a Gurkha soldier, who served in the Indian army and appears to have taken his own life after he lost all the members of his family to the earthquake.

Phulsiri and her father Amber, who broke his leg in an aftershock, have been living in temporary shelter after the earthquake destroyed their home.

Phulsiri learns that the hard way that surviving an earthquake isn't enough as the film painstakingly chronicles her struggles and her coping strategies in the wake of the worst natural disaster in the living memory of her community.