A young man, newly graduated from college is unable to find meaningful employment. Family frictions and his continuing unsuccessful quest for a job place an unbearable strain on him causing him to hallucinate.

Set during the politically turbulent period in Bengal, India—when Maoists were protesting the Indian government’s neglect of the poor—this incisive, formally inventive film is a sharp portrait of a country in transition from one of the world’s most renowned filmmakers: Satyajit Ray.