Synopsis

Directors' Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival

The best told horror stories are those haunted by apparitions of our cruel reality. After the death of the family patriarch, Mariam, a young medical student, and her family are left unshielded from the fangs of hyenas in their lives: an estranged uncle who tries to cajole her mother into giving away her inheritance, crippling debts, and daily violence against women in the patriarchy-haunted Pakistani society. Mariam starts to seek solace in a nascent romance, but an accident encroaches on her small happiness and conjures all her nightmares into the daylight.