Climate change is a stark reality. Manifested in tidal flooding, it poses basic existential questions to the densely populated 600 km coastline in Kerala, India, especially to those who live within 25 km of the coast. Tidal flooding has become the hallmark of the villages in Vypin with sea water flooding the landmass and houses every day for nearly six hours, even as clean drinking water remains a scarce necessity. Flood-related problems are eating into the lives of the villagers as they are stuck in the waterlogged living spaces. The desolate victims of climate change living in the sinking spaces, with the image of ghost villages hovering above their crumbled and dilapidated houses, breathe an air of eerie silence as they struggle to cobble together their punctured lives, once built on farming and fishing.

This documentary depicts the lives of people in these affected areas and narrates the attempts made by a few academicians, activists, and media professionals to breathe in some change to mitigate their sufferings and to probe for a way out through women, the most affected section, using the agency of Kudumbashree network, one of the world’s largest neighbourhood groups. Kudumbashree women living in these areas are given training to document their problems through Community Mapping, Community Video, and Community Theatre. They become local leaders in the process, presenting their crises before the world.