This documentary deals with the Maoist insurgency in India. It focuses on the Maoists in Bastar, Chhattisgarh fighting against industrialists in Niyamgiri, Odisha, and protesters acting in memory of the Leftist revolutionary Bhagat Singh in Punjab.
Located deep in the forested hills of the Siang valley of Arunachal Pradesh, at the north-eastern extremity of India, Damro village gathers to build a 1000 foot long suspension bridge, the elegant structures of cane and bamboo, that are the distinctive mark of the Adi tribe. Their only tool is the dao, a blade length of tempered steel, the size of a machete.
Filmmaker Sanjay Kak offers this compelling and intimate glimpse of the daily tensions in Kashmir, where resistance to India's rule among everyday Kashmiris is unrelenting and can flare into violence. Kak follows a man to his son's gravesite and listens to a girl's account of a neighbor killed by the Indian army, all against a backdrop of stunning natural scenery to ask the question, Just what is the meaning of freedom?
