Mouni Roy, is a 35 year old actor in Mumbai, India. She has never earned enough money to lead a comfortable life being an artist and she sees bankers, and working professionals as sellouts. Somewhere within, she is jealous of people who have a more comfortable life but she’d never admit it.
It has been her dream to move to the UK and work in the Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre. One day, she ends up at an online audition with Adnan, a 55 year old retired banker from Frankfurt, Germany who is going through depression. Adnan has never seen himself as anything other than his job and now that this job is over after 30 years, he desperately needs a distraction and his daughter sends him for the audition.
It unravels their pasts, their fears, their pains and joys and leaves them changed. Like any good acting class should. We explore both Mumbai – dirty, grimy, soiled, dark, dense, intense and Frankfurt – squeaky clean, bright, colorful and as we see with the people, so also we see with the cities, that at the heart they’re very similar. Mouni gets Adnan to take her through Frankfurt as she’s moving through Mumbai and soon their roles of teacher and student are reversed.