India, Aug. 23 -- There are no heroes or heroines in a Girish AD film. I walk into his films, and I feel I know these characters, as if I have seen them around. Such is the familiarity and ease with which the Malayalam filmmaker establishes his creations- be it Jaison in Thanneer Mathan Dinangal, or Sona in Super Sharanya. Bethlehem Kudumba Unit, his fifth feature film, is no exception. It is a continuation of that world and yet a more mature and resonant look at how we are perceived and defined by the choices we make.

Ashley (Mamitha Baiju) has little say in her house, where her constantly bickering parents and a younger brother leave no space for her to have a life of her own. Her grief grows when she leaves her small village home to m...