Second Wife
가진 것이라곤 몸뚱이 하나 뿐인 사이풀은 고향을 떠나 수도 다카에서 구급차를 운전한다. 매일같이 죽음을 목도하는 것보다 그를 더욱 힘들게 하는 것은 끝이 보이지 않는 가난의 함정이다. 그의 고향 마을은 계속 불어나는 강물로 땅이 꺼져가는 삼각주. 고향에 두고 온 두 번째 부인은 홀로 시부모와 두 아이를 보살피지만 경제적 능력이 없다. 중매결혼으로 맺어진 첫 번째 부인은 외국에 나가서 돈을 벌려 하지만 비행기 삯도 대줄 수 없는 가난한 남편을 원망한다. 두 부인을 책임지느라 느는 것은 빚 밖에 없고 그를 도와줄 사람은 아무도 없다. 이보다 더 나락으로 떨어질 수 없을 것 같은 상황에서 그는 점차 몸과 마음이 망가진다. 방글라데시의 모함마드 라비 므리다 감독의 <발 밑의 나락>은 가장 기본적인 사회안전망이 부재한 상태에서 기후변화로 인한 자연재해까지 겹쳐 극단으로 몰리는 인물을 그리고 있다.
Honufa
Shirja Mia is grave digger. He begs from village to village to get death news. Now he has only two things in his life. One is a doll which he bought for his daughter and other is a number which he has got from his ancestors. His ancestors believed that if someone could dig hundred graves he would surely be placed in heaven. But no one could ever reach the target. When shirja was young he came to a Char and got married. They had a lovely daughter named Rahela. He had to go to town for work. Rahela asked for a doll from the town. One day Shirja bought a doll, but he couldn't come back to Char due to bad weather. Next day he heard that the tidal bore had washed out the Char. Later he came back to Char. But he didn't find his daughter and wife anywhere. The Char was full of dead bodies. At that time he started digging graves. When one grave left to reach the hundredth, he falls in big crisis with a girl like his daughter. Will Shirja be able to complete one hundred graves?
Reshma
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way to register their union.
