All We Imagine as Light

All We Imagine as Light

Malayalis Prabha and Anu are nurses living together in Mumbai. Prabha is straitlaced and reserved, and yearns for her husband, who lives in Germany and visited India only once for a short arranged marriage, but has not contacted her in over a year. Anu is more outgoing and is having a secret affair with a Muslim man named Shiaz. One day, Prabha and Anu receive a modern rice cooker from an unknown sender; the cooker is made in Germany. A doctor, Manoj, tries to woo Prabha, but she rejects his advances, claiming her marital status. Prabha tries to help Parvaty, the cook at their hospital, fight against a construction company who wants to demolish her chawl to build a skyscraper. Unable to claim legal tenancy, Parvaty decides to quit her job and move back to her village near Ratnagiri. Prabha and Anu travel with her, to help her relocate. Unbeknownst to Prabha and Parvaty, Shiaz has followed Anu. Then they meet and secretly come together in a private place. He kisses her lips and neck. Anu feels shy, with a tingling sensation running through her. In that impulse, she kisses him intensely, and they engage in sexual intimacy. They secretly meet up, which Prabha discovers. Later they have sex. Meanwhile, Prabha rescues a middle-aged man from drowning by performing CPR. While he is waiting for the local doctor, Prabha cleans and cares for him. She sees the man she rescued as her husband.

Director

Payal Kapadia

Release

10 Oct 2024

Run time

118 min

Language

Malayalam