Calcutta 71

The restless spirit of a condemned twenty-year-old student travels through time, weaving four stories of people fighting to survive in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disasters, and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home proves no match for the ferocity of the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine descends. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.