Simon Busch and Alexander Sass traveled for months across the north of the Indian subcontinent to discover what lies beneath India's exotic and mysterious surface and to show what is rarely revealed to foreigners.
The movie is about everyday life in India. In Varanasi, people burn their dead into ashes. During the Kumbh Mela, the largest religious gathering in the world, 35 million pilgrims bathe in the sacred Ganges River. For the first time, India is presented on screen in such a tantalizing and fascinating way.