22/18
Scenario
In Mumbai, nurse Prabha’s routine is interrupted when she receives an unexpected gift from her ex-husband
Her younger roommate, Anu, tries in vain to find a place in the city to be intimate with her boyfriend.
Prabha and Anu are roommates who have moved to Mumbai to work as nurses
The first Indian film to screen in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 30 years.
seem to exist; Anu has to see her good boyfriend secretly because he is Muslim and because, according to tradition, it is the parents who choose the husband
City life should offer more opportunities and freedom, but it seems that old rigid traditions continue to trap and make them suffer: Prabha has lived depressed and half-frozen for over a year, waiting for a call from her husband, who does not need It.
Through her eyes we see both the urban sprawl and the coastal countryside
those miserable but virtuous women, the noise vanished and replaced by the sounds of beautiful music.
Very subtle, deep, delicate and inspiring
We see and feel the longing for love in their eyes and the hope for change, for transformation, for light to shine on their future.