It’s nighttime in LA: a pill-addled screenwriter struggles with writer’s block; across town, two young drifters with a lost dog search for their stolen car.

Moving between two extremes - the intimate verite drama of the Miss India pageant's rigorous beauty "bootcamp" and the intense regime of a militant Hindu fundamentalist camp for young girls. The World Before Her delivers a provocative portrait of India and its current cultural conflicts during a key transitional era in the country's modern history.