A cheeky nine-year-old boy called Gattu lives in Roorkee. The small town along with Gattu shares an obsession with flying kites and defeating the ruler of the skies above Roorkee.

In a small town in central India, kids and adults are equally obsessed with kite-flying. The airspace is dominated by a black kite called Kali with mysterious origins. A street kid Gattu, dreams of defeating Kali but fails. He discovers that the local school has a roof which will give him a vantage point. Impersonating as a student he sneaks into the school and must now pretend to study. The only problem -- he is illiterate! Nonetheless, the little street urchin takes up the challenge. Dreams aren't impossible when the desire is strong.—Wouter van der Sluis