The story of “Peer Ghani” is set in the Kashmir of the 1980s where the young PEER lives with his mother ASSE. Peer comes from a clan of rich traders, after the death of his father, they are reduced to penury and Peer’s mother keeps herself and son alive on fairy tales.

Thus Peer grows up in a world of make-believe, inhabited with Trolls and spirits and makes a name as a great story-teller or balladeer. When the real world and the spirit world clash, he is unable to deal with the reality and sets off on a voyage of self-discovery, living a nomadic existence, making and severing relationships. He is the eternal loser, always attempting to justify his life but failing in his attempts.

Peer is the proverbial anti-hero. In his world of imagination, the final truth lies in the secrets of death, as he sees his mother leave the world, still waiting for him to make something of his life. But the question that plagues him to the end is “Who am I? Where am I?”