An Indian film student writes letters to her boyfriend from whom she was forcibly separated. She reflects on her daily life, disillusionments, and inner thoughts—her voice blending with images of unrest in university campuses, press clippings, and archival footage from Narendra Modi’s rise to power.

An epistolary romance nestles at the center of Payal Kapadia’s award-winning hybrid documentary, a poetic and thought-provoking chronicle of student unrest amid the chaos of Modi’s India. This haptic, flickering love letter to cinephilia simmers with the urgency of revolution.