Adam thought that his wife Lilith would always be with him in Paradise. Yet, the same story repeats itself again and again.

Sainath, age 25, is a film student in Pune, India and his grandmother, Sunila, age 80, lives far afield in the village of Merces in Goa, India. They share a ‘film letter’ with each other. A film mounted with an expression like a warm letter weighted with feelings. A written letter is a compilation of words and sentences and a ‘film letter’ is an assembly of images and sounds. A shelter(Gotho) unfolds the journey around Polem district with voice recordings of the director and his grandmother.

A few shacks built on the hillside on the fringe of society and without men. A place of refuge, of collective and feminist transformation. From this edge, alongside those who build it, the filmmaker questions their place in nature and society, as well as the freedom of their body and the prospect of having a child. Openly alluding to Virginia Woolf’s famous quote (“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction") and introducing us to a bouquet of incredible, uncompromised female characters, an investigative yet tender camera challenges the boundaries of gendered social roles and immerses in the micro-universe of absolute freedom and self-determination.

The story takes place in the mountains of Tusheti (Northeast Georgia) where a shepherd refuses to obey his rich and influential master.