Drugs. Fanaticism. Politics. Patriarchy. Can love overcome all? When
India's top supermodel Shabnam Singh finds her first love Ajit begging
on a street in London, she is shocked to know the circumstances that led
to it all. As his traumatic life is unravelled through the withered
pages of his diary, the story traverses between London's 90s and the
turbulent Punjab of the 80s, and opens a window into Punjab's disturbing
history through a tale of love, faith, betrayal, and misfortune.
Offering an intriguing journey through the highs and lows of Shabnam and
Ajit's teenage years, India's fashion industry and the gaping abyss of
drugs, extremism and illegal migration, 'The Opium Toffee' is as much
about the power of love as it is about India's dark past.