Pain is universal. But so is hope. A story of hope and love across Mumbai and Barcelona; from India to the Mediterranean and all the way back.
1980s. Muna and Sita are two orphan sisters forced to be separated. Their lives will converge thirty years later in Mumbai and Barcelona, having crossed cultures and borders, and beyond a common past and a future yet to come.

Director: Maria Ripoll
Screenplay by Anna Soler-Pont
Plot keywords:Cross-culture, Culture shock, Orphan children, Children labour, Adoption India, Bollywood, Family, Love, Barcelona…
Languages: Mainly English and Catalan   

               
The story spans from the 1980s to today and is set in Mumbai and Barcelona, interweaving the stories of Muna and Sita, two Indian orphan sisters with very different fates, although their paths cross and eventually come together in the end.
Muna is a thirteen years old orphan Indian girl who works as a domestic servant of a rich family in Mumbai. Not a single day goes by without her thinking of her younger sister, Sita, from whom she was forced to separate one day, and dreaming about finding her. Muna will end up becoming a Bollywood star and marrying the oldest son of the family where she worked.
As a famous actress and happy adult, she will finally meet her sister again in Barcelona. But Sita’s adoptive parents have erased all her past tracks. She is now called Paula, works in the Center of Regenerative Medicine as a biologist doing cells research.
Paula will take a long journey to discover who she really is with the help of a handsome Indian immigrant selling Bollywood films in a dvd store in downtown Barcelona.
Muna and Sita/Paula will converge more than thirty years later, having crossed cultures and borders, and beyond a common past and a future yet to come.
Adapted screenplay available in English
Based on the novel Rastres de sàndal (Traces of Sandalwood) by Asha Miró and Anna Soler-Pont