(Mukundo). The first feature film produced in Nepal explores the delicate relationship between the mystical and the modern in contemporary Kathmandu. Dipak is a good-natured security guard, Saraswati a pious homemaker. When tragedy strikes and the once-happy family begins to break down, Saraswati turns in desperation to Gita, a healer. But Gita has recently begun to doubt her own beliefs, experiencing a crisis of faith that will ultimately have dire consequences for all three. For director Sherpa, rituals and spiritual possessions are as natural a part of Nepali society as soccer or television, and his characters' human frailties are inseparable from their religious convictions. In the unnervingly quiet aftermath of the film's climax, who can say which is the more powerful?