La cineasta Sumithra Prasanna visita una institución única en la India que confía en miembros de la comunidad, en lugar de especialistas, para ayudar a resolver problemas locales. Descubrió que, cuando se le dio a la comunidad la autoridad de solucionar sus propias dificultades, aumentó la confianza, mejoraron las relaciones de género y tuvo lugar una onda expansiva de cambios positivos.

 

Have you ever heard voices in your head--hundreds of them, thousands of them--keeping you up in the middle of the night? Or fought hard to hush those voices for fear of losing your sanity? The world around you zips by in nanoseconds, and you know you need to be able to keep your bearings here to survive. Caught in a disorienting visual swirl, you ponder over the meaning of life... What is this madness for? This grueling reality of trying to do something? This trying to find a voice? This trying to make something out of an otherwise insipid life?