The World Unseen is a 2007 historical drama film, written and directed by Shamim Sarif, adapted from her own novel.

The film stars Lisa Ray and Sheetal Sheth as two Indian South African women who fall in love in a racist, sexist, and homophobic society.

Ray and Sheth also star together in another Shamim Sarif movie, I Can't Think Straight, released in November 2008.

He is attracted to Madeleine, a local white postmistress, but the indignities and injustices of the prevalent law thwart their desire to pursue a relationship.

The inescapable social distance between them makes them question their feelings, but, in the midst of hatred and oppression, their only refuge is love.