在这部找寻饥饿剧情片中,1980年，一个理想主义的中产阶级电影导演企图以他手中的传媒来再现1943年的孟加拉大饥荒，以此作为社会转变的武器。村民们纷纷伸出帮助之手，有人为剧组准备了酒菜，有人带他们参观一座古老的大楼。就在这座大楼的一间房里，有一个妇女守着她瘫痪的丈夫，他就是这幢房产17个房主之一。电影开拍了，片名叫做《寻找饥荒》，入夜，影片女主角来找老人的妻子，老人静静地听她们谈话，他理解了女主角内心寂寞的恐惧。摄影队看着室内排练饥民的照片，演员们异常真实地再现了1943、1959、1971年饥荒的情景。随着摄影的进展，摄影队已经在不同程度地影响着村民的生活，一个老农埋怨他们在找回旧饥荒同时还在制造新的饥荒。
7 September, 1980. A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time-that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the "famine-seekers"!
