God, who knows when a sparrow falls, has had help this time from a little blind boy. The father finally arrives and asks the headmaster if Mohammad can stay at the school over the vacation term. The answer is no. Hashem reluctantly brings the boy home with him, where grandmother and sisters welcome him. Mohammad is under no illusions about his father's love.
Local children attend a school.
Mohammad has all the same books, in Braille, and begs to be allowed to attend. Eventually the boy is apprenticed to a blind carpenter, who will teach him how to build cabinets by touch. This might be a good job for some, but not for Mohammad, who is eager to compete in the world of the seeing. It is too deliberately simple. And it is made with delicacy and beauty.