Ishaan Verma

LOOSE ETHICS highlights the home as the child's first classroom for ethics, and asks if a lack of value-based teaching is nurturing crime in society. Does connecting children with elders help children learn how to empathize? Whose responsibility is it to introduce children to spirituality? Filmed in Mumbai, India.

Zoya Ali Khan, an educated Muslim girl, compelled by her parents to marry her uneducated cousin against her will. Her husband Zian Ali is in the business of movie piracy and does all types of wrong deeds. Zian's 9 years old nephew Azhar, who is the son of her slain sister, resides with them too. Zian beats him and Zoya regularly.