DIVA-the base of diwali

The documentary follows two interconnecting narrative paths, one comprising of interviews with three generations of people dealing with soil pottery and the other one showing the production method. Both paths are quite eloquent in their message. The job is back-breaking, dirty, and essentially does not leave much earning, since people do not prefer these products anymore. The tiredness and sense of abandonment is evident in the faces of every one interviewed, and even more in the men in their 30s who feel like they are wasting their best years for nothing. An elderly woman, whose whole family deals in diva, highlights the fact that this is the only thing they know to do, and that is why they keep at it, along with a sense of dedication to the work, which is, though, quite toned down in the younger generations.