Having recently arrived in America with her husband and son, Hema finds herself culturally displaced and must redefine her identity as a dependent mother. An encounter with a young Marathi man threatens to upend her already fragile existence.
Ritvik Dhavale is a writer and director who spent half his life in Pune, India, and the other half in Cupertino, CA. The stories he wants to tell lie between these two worlds - some fully emerged into diaspora experiences while others blur the line. Ritvik's journey into filmmaking began as a thespian in high school theater. He received his B.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA in 2017. He gained professional experience as an assistant in the CAA Media Finance Group, a Coordinator in the Sundance Feature Film Program, and a Creative Assistant in the Netflix Original Independent Film Team before fully dedicating himself to bringing stories to life. 
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
