Against the roiling backdrop of the 1993 Bombay riots, Amaan (Hritik Roshan), his sister Fiza (Karishma Kapoor), and their mother (Jaya Bhaduri) find their lives changed by a single day. Rescued by a leader of group of a violent Islamic militants, Amaan gets caught up in a spiral of violence from which there seems no escape. Revisiting tragic events and places that were not so far in the past, Fiza explored the almost unwitting and unthinking manner in which young Muslim youths play into the hands of leaders who use the riots to consolidate their political positions.