In a small village in the mountains of Uttarakhand, a daughter is lured by the possibilities of city life, while her mother is haunted by the prospect of their land’s desolation.

In this atmospheric meditation on Himalayan emigration, sound—from heavy excavators to wind-carried echoes to the soft clatter of home—speaks the unsaid. Through carefully juxtaposed frames, filmmaker Yashasvi Juyal tenderly captures the quiet ache of those who leave and those who stay.