What begins as love does not always remain so. Nilima and Mikha?s story does both. What begins as an unexpected meeting slowly deepens into something she cannot easily name or leave behind. But as the world around them hardens, marked by violence that seeps from streets into homes, love begins to shift. Moving between memory, distance, and quiet reckonings, Nilima?s journey gathers other women?s lives along the way, each marked by silence, endurance, and becoming. When love is shaped by a world that refuses tenderness, what survives, and what must be abandoned?