Chokher Bali, A Passion Play set between 1902 and 1905 is a story of a beautiful, educated woman, Binodini, struggling to free herself from the oppression of widowhood. Widowed within a year of marriage, she movers into Mahendrss house, the man who was once offered her hand in marriage and refused. There she meets Mahendras wife Ashalata and friend Behari, who is in and out of the house. Among these develops a forbidden attraction and a mesmerizing web of destiny and desire. Based on Rabindranath Tagore`s novel of the same name, Chokher Bali is a psychological study of relationships between the sexes in a landed family, of shifting eternal triangles and of complex motivations.