The Anthropologists

A quiet, luminous exploration of love, belonging, and the search for home in a city that isn’t quite yours.

Asya and Manu are apartment hunting in a foreign city, trying to imagine a shared life—what shape it will take, what rituals will anchor it, and who, if anyone, they can call family. Asya, a filmmaker with an anthropologist’s gaze, collects fragments of her surroundings, filming parks and daily routines while her grandmother urges her not to forget the bigger picture: “We named you for a whole continent.”

Far from home, where aging parents and growing children feel increasingly distant, the couple finds themselves suspended between the lives they left behind and the one they are trying to build. As their world expands through late-night talks, open house tours, and lazy breakfasts, they must ask: what can they carry forward, and what must they let go?

With tender humor and crystalline prose, The Anthropologists captures the ache and wonder of making a home with someone, and the quiet negotiations that define modern love.