The Wayfarers (Raahgir)

synopsis

Nathuni is a middle-aged woman who lives in a rural village with her bedridden husband and two school-aged children. There is no food at home and no work in the village, and there is a danger of rape even in something as innocuous as a trip to the mountainside to collect firewood. Pushed into a corner, Nathuni leaves early in the morning to go to a bigger neighboring village, located over mountains and across a river. Along the way, she meets a born wanderer Lakhpati, who was abandoned as a child and learned to survive on his own. The two of them keep each other company as they head on to the neighboring village.