Behind the Beautiful Forevers

In Annawadi, a slum beside Mumbai airport hidden behind billboards advertising luxury hotels, resourceful teenager Abdul supports his family by sorting trash. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju hopes to be the first woman in the settlement to earn a degree. Asha exploits every scam to better her standing. But when global recession threatens the garbage trade and a neighbour makes a devastating accusation, the fragile schemes holding their lives together begin to shatter. David Hare's epic adaptation of Katherine Boo's award-winning account of life in India's biggest slum.