Gupi Banerjee

Eldest brother brings up the orphaned brother single handed along with his (later) second wife's child-widow cousin. When they grow up and marry, the new wives break the family, will it rejoin? At what cost?

À Calcutta, Apu est un jeune diplômé brillant qui ne trouve pas de travail et tue le temps en écrivant son autobiographie. Alors qu’il assiste à un mariage, l’union est annulée car le futur époux souffre de graves problèmes mentaux. Tous les villageois tentent alors de marier coûte que coûte la fiancée. Apu, bienveillant, accepte de se lier avec elle.

Set against the backdrop of the political violence that rocked India, and West Bengal in particular, in the late 1960s, it tells the story of an aged widow in a village who goes to Calcutta to stay with relatives, but faces only exploitation. She moves to a slum, and finds her "own people" in a group of educated, unemployed youth, who are caught up inexorably in the prevalent violence.