Kolkata in the early seventies. The city is besieged by the Naxalite movement, which holds its genteel middle class in a thrall of terror. Caught in the crossfire between the destructive power of the Naxalite insurgency and the brutal backlash of the police force’s counter-attacks, peace-loving citizens don’t know which way to turn. The first post-Independence generation of Bengalis has barely come of age, only to face crippling poverty, unemployment, ...
