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Writer/director Suman Ghosh details the friendship between an elderly man and a little girl in this affectionate drama that studies the similarities between childhood and old age as filtered through the Hindu philosophy. In early childhood as in late adulthood, ambitions and superficial social roles simply don't exist. Like a child who hasn't yet experienced the pain or injustice of the world, the senior citizen is often able to simply accept the world at face value and not become wrapped up in the complexities and iniquities that can be so distracting to the masses. With this story, the first ashram and the fourth ashram meet, and two people who seem to have little in common discover just how the cycle of life ultimately comes full circle.