Vani gets used by her boyfriend Venu who sleeps with her and disappears soon afterwards. However, things get tougher when Vani's brother and sister-in-law die unexpectedly in an accident.

Returning to his community after defeat in the Sri Lankan civil war, a former Tamil rebel known only as "Him" faces hostility, suspicion and bitter recriminations in Asoka Handagama's beautifully elegiac meditation on the aftermath of war. (TIFF)