India's median age is just over 28, and this DW documentary builds its portrait of the country around Indians who happen to be exactly that age in 2024. The film follows an illiterate woman in a rural village fighting to give her children a different future, a Dalit man limited to work that higher castes refuse to do, and a businessman whose startup success has bought him a life of visible luxury. Hindus and Muslims appear side by side, their accounts shadowed by the rising Hindu nationalism and sectarian tension under Narendra Modi's government. The camera moves between crowded urban startup offices and villages where hunger is routine, tracking how caste, officially abolished but still operating, continues to sort who gets ahead. With parliamentary elections underway and India's economy now outpacing China's, the film asks a plain question through its subjects' lives: as the country pushes toward superpower status, which of its own people actually come along for the ride.