Baabul

Nisha escapes from her tiny Indian village and abusive father, only to be washed up in the picturesque Irish countryside. Her trauma causes her to close herself off from the world completely. Aman is struggling with a divorce, and the demands the community makes on him as a perceived leader. When he finds Nisha, he sees in her someone he can save. She lets him in, bit by bit, and slowly a friendship grows between them. Tenderly and softly at first, but with deep roots that stem from their shared experience of living abroad. As Nisha becomes more and more confident, something else is brewing in Aman… attraction. It comes to a terrible head, when he misunderstands her need for emotional closeness and family as mutual love, and sleeps with her despite her trauma and background. It destroys Nisha to her core to be violated by a father figure - yet again - and she runs away, back to India. There, through a journey of self discovery, emancipation, and with a kind guiding hand of Aman’s mother of all people, she finds something no one else could have given her. Something she had to find for herself, in the end: inner peace, and the knowledge that family does not have to be the people who raised you. Family can be found in the strangest of places.