It was a man-made famine, a side-product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of the millions who died of starvation.

The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple, flock to watch their work with wonder and suspicion.

But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present.

The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals a bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of the future.

This article about an Indian Bengali film of the 1980s is a stub.