Gurgaon sits just outside New Delhi, and fifteen years before this film was made it was a village. By 2009 it holds 1.4 million people, built largely by private real estate developers rather than any government plan, which means gleaming office towers and gated communities sit next to streets with little formal infrastructure. Director Marije Meerman spends time inside those gated communities, talking with residents about the confidence and anxiety of belonging to India's new middle class, a group whose wealth and habits are still new enough to feel unsteady. The film tracks how the global credit crisis lands on this specific city, widening the gap between Gurgaon's rich and poor and testing the private systems that replaced public ones. The question hanging over the whole film is blunt: is Gurgaon a working model for the megacities India is about to build everywhere, or a Ponzi scheme dressed up as urban development? VPRO's Backlight team lets the residents and the skyline make the case either way.