Light Across the Plains

A moving portrait of family, displacement and the choices that shape us.

When Simran dies suddenly in Berlin in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to settle her estranged aunt’s affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, what begins as a brief, practical journey soon unfolds as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place. In Berlin, Lekha uncovers Simran’s life as a young immigrant in 1960s London, her decisions bound up in intense love and friendship amid shifting political landscapes of postwar Europe and beyond. Yet Simran’s story remains incomplete, at least until Lekha’s greataunt Prushna comes into view, illuminating the hidden history of a family marked by partition and displacement. Light Across the Plains spans decades, continents and generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in.