Breaking Stones

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Breaking Stones

2009

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A internally displaced Nepali schoolboy works on the construction of a road to support his family, Ram Kumar heaves large boulders and smashes rocks while dreaming of a future as a pilot, a doctor or the next great leader of Nepal.

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