The story of a family of waste collectors in Calcutta who collects waste from one of the richest localities of the city. They sift through the wastes and bring objects for their 6 year old daughter to tell bedtime stories at night. That is their connection with the richest strata of the society. Their life is left asunder when a new battery operated car is made mandatory for their collections.
Suman Ghosh is a National Award winning Indian filmmaker. He has made 12 feature films and two documentary films. His films have been to several prestigious film festivals all over the world, including Busan, Rotterdam, Shanghai, Karlovy Vary and others. He has worked with several iconic actors such as Soumitra Chatterjee, Mithun Chakraborty, Aparna Sen, Nandita Das, Konkona Sensharma and others in his films. His latest feature ‘The Ancient’ stars legendary Indian actress Sharmila Tagore in the lead role. It is releasing all over India on the 11th of April. He divides his time between Miami and Kolkata. 
The New York Indian Film Festival (NYIFF) is the oldest, most prestigious film festival screening premieres of feature, documentary and
short films made from, of, and about the Indian subcontinent in the Independent, arthouse, alternate and diaspora genres.
