High in the hills of Kashmir, there is a hidden mine of what the locals call 'Shiva's tears'. They carry with them more than just carat weight, more than just the superstition of bad luck. Somehow, they bring together unlikely characters from around the world: Naia, looking for her birth family in India after the bizarre death of her parents in southern California; Leon, photographer, who cannot resist a chance to place his life in danger, whether from dysentery or bullet wounds; Samaad, Kashmiri, fighting to preserve a piece of his homeland from destruction by the two countries on either side of it.
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