Combining archival images, video footage and details from the painting, the film reveals how what began during the Twins’ Catholic Convent school days as a spontaneous artistic response to the attack, later became a powerful vehicle for highlighting the universality of political corruption and related issues of human rights abuses surrounding 1984 – culminating in a project that sought to bring the atrocities of 1984 to a global audience by making parallels between the Sikh experience of 1984 and the Christian tradition of the Via Dolorosa or “path of pain” suffered by Jesus leading up to his crucifixion.

This short film was amongst the first to tackle what still remains a sensitive and emotional issue 25 years on and demonstrates the power of art to document history, challenge social and political opinion and reach out to people in a way that is relevant to the collective human experience.