At the Prayas Children's Home in New Delhi, boys who have lived on the streets or passed through police custody now sleep in dormitories named after freedom fighters and start each day with lessons and chores. Filmmaker David MacDougall sets his camera in the classrooms, workshops, and courtyards of the home and lets the boys talk, argue, joke, and recount how they ended up there, from family breakdown to petty theft to simple abandonment. There is no narrator steering the story and little outside commentary; the institution's staff appear mostly at the edges, disciplining, teaching trades, and trying to instill the Gandhian values the home is built on. The film's real interest is in what happens when a national ideal built around self-reliance and moral education meets the messy particulars of individual children with individual histories. Some boys respond to the structure, others chafe against it, and the film sits with that tension rather than resolving it, leaving the viewer to weigh how much of Gandhi's vision survives in the institutions built in his name.