Three girls working in the garment shop marry the same man, each hoping to escape squalor and troubled pasts, the husband hoping to cure his erectile dysfunction.

A peasant woman's life of hardship after a marriage without a dowry portion means she'll do anything to ensure her cruel, miserly husband produces a portion for their beautiful daughter.

During an unwanted conversation with a stranger on a train in India, a woman reflects on her loveless marriage to her husband — born of financial necessity — and her abandoned dream to attend college in America.

In a dystopian society, a young widow is placed in a holding facility to spend her days learning home economics until she's chosen to be the wife of a new man.

After her father's mysterious death, a young girl relies on ancestral spirits and cultural dances to save her from her step-mother's attempts to mutilate her (FGM).

After a terrifying illness, an Indian grandmother drops everything and moves to live with her son and his wife in California. What she finds is a family that has begun to leave behind the traditions she cherishes, and her desperate attempts to save them only intensify her suffering.

As Tamil people on the hillside celebrate the eve of their independence, a young Indian boy plots his escape to the city.

A depressed Indian woman trapped in a decades-long, passionless marriage recalls the one day when she truly loved her husband.

In a future society of solely women who have found ways to reproduce and survive after a devastating plague, a young couple and their eldest daughter encounter four human males from Earth, and they anticipate the impending end of their matriarchal society.

A young man in India travels with his family to the village where his betrothed lives — however, when his marriage procession meets a river, they find the bridge across unsafe and seek help from the villagers at the river.