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Filmmaker and her mother, a village housewife: their experiences of life, abusive marriages, violence, and home. Although it's a personal story, it could be the story of countless women in a patriarchal society of Bangladesh. The documentary is about a mother and daughter's marriage and relationship who have gone through almost the same condition. The focus point is whole aspects of marriage, such as love, emotion, sex, cruelty and divorce. This mother is my mother and the daughter is me. I am going to talk about our story. My mother is almost 46 years old and I am 30. We have only 16 years gap. She had an early marriage and had gone through a horrible nightmare only at 9. Then she got married to my father, but the situation remained unchanged for her. I saw my parents' horrible conjugal life. When I was only 12, my father forced me to get married to someone and I ran away from home. I got married at 18 and marriage was a horrible experience for me too. I had an abusive relationship there. Seven years later, I divorced him and I found my own way of living. But I had conflicts with my parents during my divorce. I live in Dhaka and my mother lives in the village. She still lives with my father and remains a housewife completely. Mother is now preparing for my brother's wedding. My brother's marriage is arranged with a teenage girl. I had a quarrel with my family about this. My parents never had a balanced relationship. My mother shares her pain only with me. My father always had extra-marital affairs and my mother suffers from a complex about her body which refers her existential crisis. Now she is going through Uterine Fibroids after having abortions for number of occasions.