Where the Truth Lies

Nothing seems to threaten the quiet and happy life of Alexandra and Mircea, a couple who's both admired and envied: love, successful careers, and wealth. And nothing seems to ever threaten the very special relation between a renowned university teacher and one her most gifted student, Alexandra and Corina: two women, two friends who, against the age gap, share the same goals, the same interests. Even the same love interests. Until one day, when the sensibility is stronger than the reason. And all of a sudden, everything that seemed certain, such as friendship, loyalty, love and devotion, turns into a terrible hate.

Focuses on three stories set in different regions of West Bengal, India, that depict the human condition.

Every household that has joined the cooperative farm is entitled to a plot of land for private use. The Sedmaks family live together but the elder son Krum want the family to separate on paper as to be given more land. The younger son, Nayden, has passed the university entrance exams but his admission is not assumed because the village Party secretary has given him a bad character reference. He returns to the village in search of justices. The president of cooperative farm has faith in the young man and tries to help him. Krum and his family set up a separate household, though the family all continue to have supper together. Nayden is not aware of what is going on. Yanka, the daughter of the president of cooperative farm, is in love with Nayden. The two meet every evening. One evening the Sedmaks family leaves their door unlocked. The farm president comes and finds them together. The fraud comes out into the open. The farm president forbids his daughter to meet Nayden. Yanka no longer trusts the boy either. After he fatal supper The Sedmaks clan have a quarrel, which ends with a real separation. Nayden leaves his father's home. The head of the family, old Sedmak, and Krum admit their guilt. On second thoughts, Yanka goes back to Nayden. Nayden receives a god reference, marries Yanka, and he young couple leave for the town to study.

A reunion of high school friends to mourn their late friend Nico unravels dark secrets as someone among them is a murderer, putting decade-long bonds to the test.