When his father dies, anti-regime partisan Chandra must travel to his remote mountain village after nearly a decade away. Little Pooja is anxiously awaiting the man she thinks is her father, but she’s confused when Chandra arrives with Badri, a young street orphan rumored to be his son…

The aftermath of Nepal’s civil war. Deepak Rauniyar’s sophomore feature explores intergenerational difference between royalists and Maoists, as told through the perspective of a family torn asunder by varying ideology. An essential portrait of family and necessary allegory of a nation on the mend.