W. H. Auden's poem, 'Partition' serves as a critique of a dark chapter in Indian history as it provokes a troubled conscience to reminiscence some dark memories.
He is the British barrister Sir Cyril Radcliffe who was hastily put in charge of drawing the 'bloody line' that created India and Pakistan. At the end of the film, Radcliffe walks to a quaint little church with his wife, carrying a lifetime's guilt for agreeing to draw the line that had, and still has, violent repercussions.
