Between Cradles

After losing her husband just days before childbirth, Suman, a young widow, finds herself utterly alone in the chaos of the city. Left without support or means, she navigates a city that has no place for the vulnerable. Each door she knocks on for work closes when people see the baby in her arms.

When desperation outpaces fear, she leaves her newborn in the care of Kanta Tai, an old neighbour, and takes a job as a nanny for Ruhi, the three-year-old daughter of a busy corporate woman. As Suman nurtures Ruhi with warmth and affection, the line between motherly love and emotional survival begins to blur. Yet, in quiet moments, her body and heart ache for her own child—a bond that distance cannot sever. Over time, fatigue, guilt, and helplessness close in on her fragile existence.

Small fractures appear in her arrangement with Tai, echoing the emptiness that shadows her days. Until one unforeseen moment changes everything—an encounter so devastating that her entire world shatters, leaving her to confront the one truth she can no longer escape.