"THE BRIDGE BETWEEN US"

In this poignant and haunting tale, a middle-aged man, remarkable only for his extreme ordinariness, requests a ride across the Bandra-Worli Sea Link in Mumbai. The driver, unaware of the man's inner turmoil, agrees without question. As they drive in silence, the man reflects on the crushing weight of his failed business, mounting debts, and the imminent threat from ruthless loan sharks. At the midpoint of the bridge, the man asks to be dropped off, a quiet resignation in his voice that the driver doesn't fully grasp until it's too late. After a heartbreaking video call to his son, the man steps off the bridge, choosing to escape a world that has long ceased to notice him. The driver, left with an unsettling sense of regret, is haunted by the encounter for years, forever marked by the missed opportunity to intervene in the life of an ordinary man facing extraordinary despair.