Love Rituals

India (1x5)

: 30, 2019

In India, Charlotte Roche seeks an answer to the interplay of love and marriage. Is the marriage a prison or empowerment? This is not easy to answer in Indian society. At the Gangaur Festival in the desert state of Rajasthan, Charlotte Roche is invited to an extended family and watches as the eldest daughter internalizes her desire for a happy marriage in a ritual. For this she adorns the divine couple Shiva and Parvati and lets them drink water at the ghat. Charlotte Roche receives support from the unusually free-thinking Divya Dugar, who explains her sisterly everything and takes her into the soul of the Indian partner relationship. It is rarely as colorful and romantic, as tourists, mostly young couples, in Udaipur, the most romantic city in India, imagine. In a remote village, Charlotte meets Roche's children's brides, and in Vrindavan, the city of the Indian goddess Krishna, she talks to widows who were rejected by their families after their spouses died. And yet, in all these encounters, there seems to be something that brings Charlotte Roche closer to love and ultimately shares with the audience.