With Morning Hearts

This film continues MacDougalls longterm study of an elite boys boarding school in northern India It focuses on a group of twelveyearolds during their first year in one of the houses for new boys The film concerns their attachment to the house but more importantly their attachment to one another in a communal life It follows in particular the experiences of one boy and several of his close associates from their initial homesickness to their life as member of the group to their separation from the house at the end of the year