A History of Burning is a sweeping multigenerational saga tracing one family’s journey from colonial India to East Africa and eventually to exile in Canada. It begins with a fateful decision made by Pirbhai, a teenage laborer on the British-built railway, whose single act of survival casts a long shadow over his descendants. As his children and grandchildren grow up amidst the turmoil of Ugandan independence and expulsion under Idi Amin, they face personal and political reckonings, carrying both inherited silence and generational resilience. This is a powerful tale of migration, memory, and the unspoken legacies that shape us.