Puja Banerji

When a vulnerable new student finds comfort in her brash teacher, their academic relationship takes a manipulative and troubling turn.

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.