Trina Nileena Banerjee

In an empty hospital in Kolkata, India, a man faces protocols of blood, a subtly discriminatory office, and a vacant operating theater. His mind is on a loop of the last months of his wife’s life, when a quiet argument developed. When is the end of pharma-medical care, whose life is it anyway?

A man and a woman meet in an urban space as strangers and remain so until the end whilst they steadily grow alienated from their surroundings. As they close in on their own crises, they begin to feel comfortable with their respective existences.

Defying his father’s wishes by following his rebellious uncle’s example, a young Bengali from an upper caste tries to help those on the lower end of the spectrum and, while he’s at it, offers to marry his brother’s pregnant mistress.