Summary: Man, with all his knowledge and learning spends major portion of his available resources on production and explosion of nuclear weapons. We consider child as the hope of our future, future full of creative and noble things. But what goes wrong in the process of growing up? Why his innocence along with his ignorance? This small little film asks such incisive questions that remain to be answered by all responsible adults.
This abstract narrative, dealing with the parallel themes of “Man with all knowledge” and “Child the father of man”, is a psycho-social exploration of nationhood, industrial progress and scientific (nuclear) development, as seen through the eyes of a child.
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