A photo of her husband in an open coffin – that is all that the widow Sundari has left. Baskaran, an Indian, went to Dubai as a construction worker and never came back. The film elevates Baskaran from the ranks of the anonymous army of Indian migrant workers, tells his story and gives him a face.
The Shadows of the Desert
85 min (HD), Hybrid-Documentary Nominal Film, Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München, Bayerischer Rundfunk, FFF Bayern.