Photographs and an essay by Hiroki Nakayama, who from 2001 worked for five years in Pakistan and Afghanistan as a field worker for the Japanese NGO Peshawar-kai and photographed the doctor Tetsu Nakamura and his companions, who dug wells and laid channels in drought-stricken land. Kept as personal records and memories, the pictures were rediscovered by the author himself. They show the sites where wells were dug and waterways laid, and the faces of days lived with family and faith, colleagues of any nationality, gender, age or occupation. There is no dramatic turn of events, only the quiet presence and work of each person rooted in the land, and the gaze of a photographer facing them squarely. The act and prayer of leading the water strikes a chord underfoot for each of us.