An intimate, moving portrait of one eunuch family’s struggle to survive in today’s changing India.

For centuries, castrated “hijras” of the Indian subcontinent have subverted gender rules as a third sex. Risking severe penalties for speaking to outsiders, Meena discusses her life and the rituals of her closed community in this complex depiction of a people’s fight for survival. Devastated by poverty, AIDS, prostitution, and police harassment, the hijras have maintained a sharp-tongued candor, bawdy humor, and business savvy that enables them to continually reinvent themselves. In Hindi and English with English subtitles.