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Water
Water
India, 1938. An eight -year -old girl finds out that she became a widow. Once she was married for the future `for an unfamiliar adult man and left in his father`s house. Now, according to the holy laws, she has three ways: to burn with her husband at the funeral stake, marry his younger brother or become untouchable and live in Ashram until the end of his days - a shelter for widows at the temple, on the banks of a large river ... Life in the shelter is full Longing and hopelessness, but the sadness of a little responsive girl is brightened up by friendship with an older girlfriend in misfortune - the beauty of the potassium, who is forced to engage in prostitution in order to feed the inhabitants of Ashram. Kaliyani is like a beautiful flower thrown into dirty water. The young lawyer Narayani is passionately in love with her, who decided at all costs to change the life of his beloved and the whole shelter for the better ...