遠斯里蘭卡有兩條相鄰的村，世世代代都水火不容。但有一天，突如其來的詛咒，令兩條村的婦女失去生育的能力。本是敵對的關係就始產生了微妙的變化。雙方的巫師都得到啟示，他們必須派出一男一女，去到神秘的森林裡，破解詛咒，而只有一人會平安歸來。僧伽羅人派出一位過氣戰爭英雄，而泰米爾人則選出一位因為戰亂而失去家人的啞婦。兩人跟隨巫醫進入怪異的森林，目睹來自潛意識的幻象，迫使他們重新面對昔日的創傷。新晉導演SubaSivakumaran，把熱帶雨林的燥熱和主角們的迷惘，調合得相當獨到，創作出令人眼前一亮的處女作。

Two villages, one Tamil and the other Sinhala, have been at war for generations. Both face a new existential threat: the curse of infertility. The villages receive a message from the gods to each send a representative to the Forest of the Dead to find the key to renewing life. Only one will return. The chosen ones, a mute Tamil widow and a disgraced Sinhalese soldier, journey into the forest and confront the secrets of their villages and their own past traumas. Suba Sivakumaran makes her feature debut with a dystopian parable about the long history of ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. Harrowing yet lyrical, this surreal odyssey envisions the very real horrors and consequences of war and violence.