Eighteen years after she introduced herself to the ZFF audience with the fascinating documentary I For India (ZFF 2006), director Sandhya Suri returns with her fiction feature debut, fresh from touring the world’s biggest festivals (Cannes, Toronto, Karlovy Vary). A dramatic and disquieting look into the world of law, castes, religion and gender relations in a stratified Indian society, this crime thriller follows a young widow Santosh who, under government measures, inherits her deceased husband’s position of police constable in rural India. After the murder of a low-caste girl, Santosh’ station becomes the focus of all the media and the charismatic Chief Inspector Geeta Sharma enters the scene.