If there's anything that's constant at the MIT Institute of Design campus, it's the never ending number of construction sites. They seem to be wanting to use every inch of land to create yet another building. I spent my four foundational years of studying Industrial product design here. On our way to the academic buildings or the college canteen, we would always pass by men, women and their children from the construction sites. For a year, I woke up to the sounds of concrete shovelings, saw machines, bricks and stones since the window of my hostel room looked over one of these empty lands - slowly creeping up to block my beautiful view.. But I was definitely intrigued by the lives of these workers. I used to observe them so much that I finally decided to go down, strap my camera on and document every little detail that I noticed.

I spent a week shadowing the workers. It often made me wonder that not enough wondering is happening about the hard work put behind the homes that we live in. Spending days at the site, gave me a little peek into the kind of black and white(or not?) world that they live in. I put these bits of their daily life into a short film where I have tried to show underlying portrayals of risk at work, family life, gender roles, satisfaction etc, at the same time letting the viewer have their own perspective on what they're watching.