Arquivo / 49th mostra

Thooya, a migrant and aspiring actress, survives the city by leveraging beauty and wit, occasionally trading intimacy for opportunity. When she sublets her sugar daddy’s upscale apartment to Swetha, a fellow migrant working a corporate job, the two women — seemingly from different worlds — begin to share more than just a space. Amid the relentless pulse of Mumbai, they discover a silent empathy. But as personal stories, desires, and wounds resurface, their delicate connection is tested. What follows is not a rupture, but a strange and tender unfolding — of selfhood, of survival, of unexpected kinship.

Winner of the best direction award of the Horizons section at the Venice International Film Festival.