The Waiting City

Year: 2009

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Claire McCarthy

DramaRomance

An outwardly happy Australian couple travels to Calcutta to retrieve their adopted baby, only to discover that the paperwork is incomplete. As they wait, the city's intoxicating, mystical energy draws them into divergent, unforeseen paths, exposing the fragile cracks in their marriage and forcing them to confront their deeper fears.

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