Plot Summary for Bol

Zainub (Humaima Malik) is sentenced to death. Mustafa (Atif Aslam) advises her to tell everyone her story before she dies. She is allowed a last wish by the president of Pakistan and she tells her story to a large gathering of media.

She says that during the partition of the subcontinent her family migrated from Delhi to Lahore. Her parents had a lot of daughters and then her mother (Zaib Rahman) gave birth to a child that was neither male nor female. Meanwhile her family's financial situation deteriorated. Her father (Manzar Sehbai) wanted to kill the child at its birth but her mother didn't let him. The child, named Saif Ullah, was home-schooled by a master and becomes very skilled at sketching. Though he is disliked by his father.

Zainub got married and then got separated because she didn't want a child due to her husband's financial situation. Meanwhile Zainub's mother keeps getting pregnant with babies that die before they're born. Zainub gets her mother operated so that she could no longer give birth. Hakeem sahab (Zainub's father) finds out about the operation and goes mad on Zainub for having it done. Zainub discovers Saif Ullah while he's wearing a woman's clothes. She is greatly perturbed by this and talks to Mustafa about Saifi. Mustafa takes Saifi to a guy who is in charge of drawings/paintings on trucks. Saifi is teased by perverts there and returns home after work crying his eyes out. Zainub tells him to be brave and that their father would be very happy when he sees Saifi's earnings.

Saqa Kanjar (Shafqat Cheema) asks Hakeem Sahab to teach nazra Quran to children in his household. Upon finding out that Saqa is a Kanjar, Hakeem sahab deny his request. Saifi is tricked into getting inside a truck at work and is raped by several men at the painting place where he works. Mustafa arrives at the scene but is fooled by the men there into believing that Saifi has left for home. Saifi is found later that night by a shemale and returned to his house. Hakeem Sahab, upon learning that his son was raped, chokes and kills his son with a plastic bag, but not before Zainub sees him doing it.

A police officer asks Hakeem Sahab for 2 lacs in bribe if Hakeem wanted his son's post mortem reports to remain a secret (so that people may not find out about his son's gender). Hakeem Sahab is forced to give the police officer the sum of money a masjid committee entrusted him with for building a mosque. Hakeem Sahab is then forced to go to Saqa Kanjar to teach Quran to earn money to pay back his debts. At home Hakeem Sahab washes and irons the notes of money Saqa gave him in advance, considering them dirty.

Mustafa smuggles Ayesha (Mahira Khan), Mustafa's love interest and singing partner, to a concert where they both sing. Later Hakeem Sahab is asked by Mustafa's father for his daughter's hand, but he says no pointing out that he wouldn't marry his daughter in a shiah family.

The masjid committee asks Hakeem Sahab for their money back. Hakeem then goes to Saqa who proposes that Hakeem should have a daughter with Saqa's daughter for money. Saqa would keep the child if it was a girl and Hakeem could take it if it was a boy. Hakeem agrees to this, but asks Saqa not to tell this to anyone.

Mustafa and Ayesha, and Hakeem Sahab and Mina (Iman Ali), Saqa's Daughter, get married simultaneously. When Hakeem Sahab returned home after spending the night with Mina, Zainub tells him that she got Mustafa and Ayesha married. Hakeem goes mad at her and beats her up.

A reporter calls a guy who works with the president to get the death sentence postponed. But he denies her any help.

Hakeem Sahab tells his friends at the masjid committee that he was very fed up with his daughter Zainub, and that either of them would die at the hands of the other. The reporter calls the official again and pressurizes him to release Zainub.

Meanwhile Mustafa passes his exams and becomes a doctor. Mina tells Hakeem that she had a brother from his father's first chaste wife.

The reporter calls the ministry official again.

Hakeem Sahab and Mina have a daughter. He asks Mina to give their daughter to him and he'll leave the city to keep her safe from the kanjars. Saqa overhears this and kicks Hakeem out of his house. He tells Hakeem that if he ever tried to take the baby girl away he would take all his daughters and turn them into cheap prostitutes.

Later Mina comes to Hakeem sahab's place to give him his daughter. Upon finding out who the child was Hakeem's wife fights with him and he beats her up. She then tells her daughters about their father's shameful acts. Zainub tells her father that they will all leave the house the following day and if he tried to stop them she will kill him.

Saqa Kanjar arrives at Hakeem sahab's place with some men and crashes open the main door. Hakeem sahab tries to kill his baby girl to save her from Saqa but is killed by a fatal blow on the head by Zainub. Saqa and his men search the house for the baby. He asks Zainub where the baby was and she replies that her father killed and disposed off her.

The police officer in charge of Zainub's death tells the reporters that it was time for them to leave.

Zainub says that she took revenge from her father for giving birth to her. She asks that why only killing someone was a crime and why giving birth was not. She asks that why was making legitimate children and then making their life hell was right, but making illegitimate children wasn't. She asks that if people couldn't feed their children why do they give birth to them. She argues that giving birth to children one can't afford should be a considered wrong and a crime too.

Zainub is then hanged.

The reporter, Rashda, speaks on the news about what Zainub had just said.

The president calls a meeting about what Zainub had just questioned.