Maya, a celebrated journalist known for her unyielding integrity, sat in her glass-walled office overlooking Mumbai. It was 2021, and the world outside was just starting to move again. For Maya, however, time had frozen on a rain-slicked night just weeks before.

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Directed by Sunny Sanwar and Faisal Ahmed, this spy thriller was the most expensive film in Bangladeshi cinema at the time. Starring Arifin Shuvoo and Nusraat Faria, Mission Extreme was supposed to be a theatrical spectacle. However, within days of its limited release, a HD rip surfaced online, significantly hurting its box office run. Despite this, it remained the most searched title on the site for Q3 of 2021.

One evening, while Rukhsana was serving dinner, the silence in the room became "palpable". Maya’s son, Surya, who lived with cerebral palsy, watched them both with an observant intensity that seemed to pierce through Maya’s facade.