A young Indian woman marries, enjoys her life as part of a loving couple, until there is pressure from her mother-in-law, and then her husband, to conform to the expectations of the ‘family’. It’s a shocking story – in part because it’s inspired by events happening right now – told in a series of vignettes. Three generations of women show how the patriarchal culture is still ingrained, and how short-sighted it is not to realise its inevitable outcomes. There are excellent performances all round – particularly from Helen Capasso as the domineering mother-in-law and CeeJay Singh as the husband, but it’s Dhruvi Patel, as the daughter, who brilliantly drives the narrative from a dream come true to a living nightmare. Director Rek Kieron maintains the women’s perspective throughout and doesn’t look away from their complicity. The approach of using short scenes to progress the story quickly, but having long scene changes in between, means the pace can stutter. This allows some of the tension to be released, but the story is so powerful that it sustains to the end.