Set in the aftermath of Nepal's civil war, a shy middle class teen is manipulated by his friends to visit a brothel, unleashing a chain of events which will change him forever.

The unlikely friendship between a timid college kid and the cousin of a Maoist don leads to grim consequences in MANGO PICKLE, a gritty coming of age tale set amid the Dashain Hindu festival in Kathmandu. A darkly surreal visual journey deep into the microcosm of Nepal's capital city, shown from the perspective of a contemporary youth whose repressed sexuality and yearning for acceptance leads him to betray his own morality in this fast-paced art-house thriller.