Who is dreaming up the global city? Q2P peers through the dream of a
futuristic Mumbai and finds not enough public toilets. As this film
observes who has to queue to pee, we begin to understand the
imagination of gender that underlies the city’s shape and the
constantly shifting boundaries between public and private space. We
meet whimsical people with novel ideas of social change, which thrive
with mixed results. We learn of small acts of survival that people in
the city’s bottom half cobble together. In the Museum of Toilets, at
a night concert, in a New Delhi ‘international toilet’, in a Bombay
slum, we hear the silence that surrounds toilets and sense how
similar it is to the silence that surrounds inequality. The toilet
becomes a riddle with many answers and some of those answers are
questions – about gender, about class, about caste and most of all
about space, urban development and the twisted myth of the global
metropolis.