Time Setting : 1971
Place Setting: Bangladesh (Liberation War Period)


Act-1

Shafik: Father, it’s time…
Father: Do you really have to go? You know you are my last hope… please don’t go son…
Shafik: I really don’t have a choice. I must go… this is for our country father. Please don’t stop me.
Father: I have sacrificed every single one of you for this country... and now I have to lose you as well?
Shafik: Yes father, it is my time now… please don’t stop me now.
Father: Don’t stop then... just go …
[Shafik will leave the room while his father cries]

Act-2

[ Repeatedly knocking at the door. Father opens the door and Commander Khan enters]
Father: What do you want?
Commander Khan: Where is your son?
Father: I don’t know! Do you have any problem with him? He didn’t do anything!
Commander Khan: “didn’t do anything”? [laughs] Your son Guerilla Commander Shafik Muntasir is a traitor.. And you’re saying you don’t know anything?
Father: I... I don’t know know anything...
Commander Khan: So you will not negotiate? Well we know how to make you talk!
Father: Please believe me.
Commander Khan: Lock him in the prison!

Act-3

[Act continues in a prison cell]
Commander Khan: Tell us where is he hiding? Where is he?
Father: I have told you before, I don’t know anything. I just know that he went for his work. You’ll not find him...
Commander Khan: Don’t tell us what to do and what not to do, bloody Bengali..
[Commander Khan will begin to torture the father]
Father: You can kill me if you want but you will never find him [smiling at Commander Khan]
Commander Khan: So you won’t tell me after all this?
Father: I said I don’t know!
Commander Khan: He will not breakdown that easy. We have to try again later.
[Commander Khan will leave the premises. After a while, a maid comes to serve the father some food]
Maid: Brother please eat this.. these animals won’t let you die in peace...
Father: I can not eat their food with my own mouth.
Maid: Please eat.. you have to live.
Father: They didn’t let them live either.
Maid: They really don’t let someone live. They are worst than animals. Mercy and humanity are just words for them. They...
Father: My elder son was leaving the home, told him not to go but he didn’t listen. They took him away. His students were his everything. He often said to me that they are the future...
Maid: They might have taken him away ..
Father: They didn’t even let me have his body. Went many times but they didn’t give a single response...
Maid: Request is just a term for begging to these animals.
Father: Begging? I begged Rafian to not go. I tried to make him understand about the situation. He managed to join the revolution but…
Maid: But?
Father: He told me he will return but he didn’t.
Maid: Sad.
Father Tahsin used to talk a lot. His words had a great impact in the campus. Hanging out was his favorite thing.
Maid: and … what happened?
Father: Nothing special... He did return home from the party office in 26th March but in a coffin.
[A long silence]
Maid: You need to live brother … you need to live.
Father: Really?
Maid: Yes, at least for your sons. Don’t you want to see the outcome that your sons have planned for you? You should live... it’s your right…
Father: May be … may be not … who knows?

Act-4

Commander Khan: Mr. Muntasir ... It’s time...
Father: What time?
Commander Khan: Well, as you know now need torture cells more than expensive hotels.. we need to free this cell.
Father: So you’re freeing me?
[Commander Khan will laugh]
Commander Khan: Who said anything about freeing you?
[ Rajakar enters the premises]
Rajakar: Sir, mukti attacked the jail-gate and killed 13 of our soldier.
Commander Khan: What? What did you do?
Rajakar: We killed two muktis sir! I think one of them is whom we are looking for.
[ Father will scream]
Father: Mukti! Killed!
Commander Khan: [Laugh] You think your son died now? No , never .. I’m the one who will kill your son with my bare hands.
Father: Aren’t they a son to a father?
Commander Khan: Do l look like care? this is your fate.. just accept it...
Father: You should care and I really won’t accept it.. because to find them, you must be good, to catch them , you must be fast... but to beat them , you must be kidding Mr. Khan.
If death Strikes before my son proved his blood,
I swear others will kill the death,
My sons will kill the death...