Fireflies in the Abyss

In the Jaintia Hills of Northeast India boys and men descend into the abyss of the ratholes to scratch coal out of hard rock with nothing more than a pickaxe and a headtorch One of them is Suraj an 11year old boy Born in the mines to Nepali immigrants Suraj cherishes the hope of getting out of the coalpit someday With his mother no more an unsupportive father and no place he can call home the odds are stacked against him And yet he battles to eventually put himself in school The film follows Suraj through his tumultuous journey while revealing startling stories and lives under unusual perhaps extraordinary circumstances