DASI, a Dalit (‘untouchable’ caste) woman in a Rajasthan desert village, dehydrates one afternoon while making her rounds manual scavenging, emptying the dry toilets of upper caste villagers. This leaves AMRITA, her 11-year-old daughter, to finish this work and bring home the Water that could save them both. Can Amrita do this without firmly entering herself into the same cycle of compliant abandonment that was Dasi’s undoing? (Out)caste is a short film about an entrapment between generations of women, dictated by a 3,000-year-old social hierarchy, and takes place during one such moment of transition. This story is also about a girl and her mother. And a woman and her daughter.