在这部约瑟夫的儿子剧情片中,位于印度东北部的曼尼普尔邦在1990年代常年发生叛乱斗争，百姓伤亡惨重，一名父亲不得不踏上寻找失踪儿子的旅程。大器晚成的印度导演豪巴姆·帕班·库马尔曾凭借处女作《湖上的女人》入围釜山国际电影节新浪潮单元，本片延续了导演处女作有关叛乱的主题，从受害者的角度侧面呈现曼尼普尔邦的政治历史，以固定长镜头舒缓描摹普通人坚强面具背后的精神痛苦。采用曼尼普尔语、唐窟语、梅泰语等多种方言，象征分裂冲突之下的民族融合，映现患难之中的多民族友好情谊，将此片献给在叛乱斗争中去世的人们。
David, a passionate footballer, has not come home. His mother persuades Joseph, his father, to go and look for him. After no luck with David's friends, Joseph goes to the police. The body of a teenage boy lies in the morgue in Imphal, and they tell him the only way to know whether it is or isn't David, is to go there to see for himself. Reluctantly he sets out on the long journey and as he travels, his fear grows deeper: a fear born of constant conflict - past and present - to which a personal fear is added.
殖民者留下的遗产——无尽的种族冲突。
