A young, Western-educated Mizo girl throws away her puan (traditional shawl) for designer clothes. She starts seeing a tlangsam (spirit of the hills) in her high-rise Bangalore apartment mirror. The puitling thar (a young historian) tells her: "Your ancestors are not in the ground. They are in the fabric you threw away."
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