Haunted by her mother’s death, a young Indian-American med student journeys back to India to find closure. While there, an unexpected encounter with a young indigenous girl makes her confront her past and question her future.
To heal after her mother’s sudden death, Aney, an Indian-American med student, returns to rural India to change the system that failed her.
She rallies a ragtag group of volunteers to run a clinic for village outcasts, and there she meets Farida—a promising, wisecracking teenager from a wandering tribe. While Aney works with the tribe to address their long-standing ailments, the unconditional love she receives from Farida begins to set Aney free from the trauma of her mother’s death.
Then the unthinkable happens.
COVID sweeps India and Aney’s work grinds to a halt. She’s forced to flee back to the US. Meanwhile, Farida’s father dies of COVID when the hospital kicks him out because he runs out of money. Farida’s life turns upside down. She drops out of school and is forced to prepare herself to be married off. Seeing both her dreams and Farida’s life unravel, Aney quits her job and jets back to India … hopefully before it's too late.
Filmed over seven years, this deeply personal East-meets-West story of mutual healing shows how the sufferings and joys of the human experience blurs borders and boundaries; countries and caste.
