The Storm

Shahriyar, who has just finished graduate school and is the father of nine-year-old Anna, is soon supposed to leave the United States because his visa term is ending and return to Bangladesh. In the final days before he departs, he shares stories of his homeland with his daughter, interweaving them with family memories. The girl vividly imagines scenes from the past: the destruction of a fishing village on the shore of the Bay of Bengal under the pressure of a powerful hurricane… the fate of a Japanese pilot whose plane crashed in these areas during World War II… the despair of a family from Calcutta, forced to leave everything and flee to East Pakistan after the partition of India… Life sometimes resembles a hurricane that quickly changes human destinies, and in this chaos, only love, family, and care for the future of children help one survive.