April - June 2008
Contact Theatre, Manchester | UK Tour

by Satinder Chohan

In the cotton fields of Punjab, Baba, an ageing farmer, tends to his crop and pins his hopes of prosperity on genetically modified seeds and Western pesticides. His feckless son, Dhani, full of frustrated ambition, dreams of going to America. His more dutiful daughter, Chandni, is torn between staying on the land she loves and facing poverty or following the man she adores to a more prosperous life abroad.

The final reckoning on Baba’s land draws out painful truths and forces the family to the brink of collapse in a fast-changing world rapidly losing its values.