Set in the crumbling environs of Calcutta, Labour of Love is a lyrical unfolding of two ordinary lives suspended in the duress of a spiralling recession.
While Jonaki, an 80-year-old woman, searches for love in a strange world of decaying memories, her lover, now old and grey, returns to a world she is leaving behind.
Vidya, a single mother and staunch idealist, moves into Mahalaxmi Apartment as a tenant, a housing society with hidden cracks. One night, she encounters a terrifying elevator malfunction and reports it to Sharma, the egoistical building president, who refuses to believe anything could be...