First comes Rustom, who returns from America determined to modernize the family farm and shed the corruption that plagues its operation and the violence used to control the lower classes. He rises to power under Yazid’s tutelage, but Saqib is not satisfied with the limitations that Yazid settled for. Are you showing how easily people are corrupted or how a problematic system fosters that corruption but can be changed? Thirty years ago, we couldn’t have imagined that there’d be this scale of corruption so openly. But if you align everybody’s interests well enough, and if you’re vigilant enough, you can prevent corruption.