An elderly woman based in contemporary Calcutta faces her hopes and shattered dreams. Flashbacks appear of various women’s experiences during Partition, including forced religious conversion, abuse, and abduction.

Inspired by a feminist classic of Bengali literature, this decades-spanning animated short looks back on the violence inflicted on women following the partition of India. Beautiful and achingly fragile, a broken string of pearls stands for the dreams that were broken in the name of nationalism.