As the title "Braids" suggests, the film depicts three women from different countries and backgrounds confronting their respective predicaments, and how their lives intersect at the end. Smita is a noncaste "untouchable" living in rural India, who has made her living by collecting excrement from the upper castes for generations. In this kind of life, it is her longing to get her daughter Lalita into school to learn to read and write, and to help her daughter escape from a situation like her o...
