I Am Alive

Outstanding performances and direction drive this haunting, sensitively played story of a woman, used and abused by a predatory social system. The phenomenal Deepti Naval plays a compliant housewife who, after her husband abandons her, becomes her family's sole breadwinner. Gradually, she comes into her own, and even finds love with another man. But after her husband returns, her in-laws' treatment of her turns from ingratiating to stone-cold indignant as she struggles to reclaim the happiness slipping from her grasp.