Yarn

Naniji tell me your story. What begins as a young womans question to her grandmother unexpectedly turns into a family saga. Compiled through family albums home videos journal entries and interviews Yarn follows the life of Pragya Bhagats grandmother Shyama. At the age of ten the Partition pushes Shyama from Pakistan to India but this is only the first of her many migrations. As each chapter of Shyamas life unfolds Pragya reflects on her own experiences with her grandmother on family and friendship on loving and losing. In her search for Nanijis story Pragya discovers parts of herself. Poignant and vulnerable Yarn is the extraordinary tale of an ordinary Indian family its joys and fears its silences and secrets.