Labour of Love

The spiralling recession that hit India peaked a few years ago. Thousands of people lost their jobs without notice. Faced with financial uncertainty, a married couple living in a disintegrating district of Calcutta is under great pressure. They could lose their jobs at any time. Their lives are filled with an endless cycle of shift work and domestic routine, with long stretches of waiting in the silence of an empty house. These are no conditions for love to blossom. They are forced to negotiate between expectations and reality. They try to manifest their love wherever they can, through little acts like fixing a button or cooking for two. How do you trick time to be able to spend it together? Told almost without words, this is a story about two people during an economic crisis.

Great cinematography and the pace of narration turn the viewer into an active participant of events.

India 2014