A woman remembers her past by faces she sees while travelling on the Underground in London. She begins to believe that these people, like her, have all taken part in the same event which took place in the family home in Pakistan. The story takes the form of a letter to her friend Fatima. A personal documentary around journeys, memories and watching, watching while journeying and remembering while watching — travelling through memories, places and events and documenting them into consciousness. The story is spoken in Urdu and although there are English subtitles, they do not always appear in conjunction with what is spoken, producing a layered, ephemeral, and fragmented experience. Alia Syed, born in Swansea to a Welsh mother and an Indian father, expresses the dislocation of the diasporic experience while questioning the role of language in structuring power relations between class, race and gender.
