Shuttlecock Boys

When a middle-aged filmmaker meets an alluring stranger at a party, he's haunted by troubling memories of his past relationships.

Kota, a city in North-West India famous for its coaching institutions, attracts more than 200,000 teenagers from all across the country to prepare for the undergraduate competitive exams. These students reside in cubicle sized hostel rooms and study for more than 15 hours a day for two consecutive years to crack the entrance exams for prestigious colleges that has acceptance rate of less than one percent. These students face intense insurmountable pressure from coaching institutes, peers and their families which not everyone is equipped to cope with, resulting in some students taking the extreme step of suicide.

Zoya travels from India to Busan in search of answers about her Korean filmmaker friend. What begins as a quest for closure unravels into a journey of unsettling discoveries that challenge her perceptions of both him and herself.