39th Locarno International Film Festival

Deep rooted in the cultural traditions of India, the film denounces the exploitation of the hopes and wishes of impoverished people for a better life.

The jury awards the film for its intense testimony, pleading for the dignity of an immigrant woman imprisoned by contrasting cultures.

Magnificently directed and interpreted. A sense of faith, the importance of love in communication between human beings, such are the questions posed by this film whose ending has great force, and in which the viewer can invest his own thoughts and beliefs.