Fleeing from their burnt-out village in the Punjab, Marvinder and Jaspal are separated from their mother and now face a daily fight for survival as they escape across India. David’s instinctive use of light and colour infuses this peaceful scene, but the lengthening evening shadows and circling birds subtly hint at what the dawn will bring as civil war tears a country apart and tests friendships to their limit against the backdrop of Indian independence and the Partition of India and Pakistan. Out now from Egmont!