A youthful dance scene is followed by somber protest images, gorgeous wedding photos are followed by dreamy mornings on a university campus: at the Mumbai State film school, love letters of an inter-caste love affair are discovered in a box. As a paratactic montage, they become the testimony of violent injustices in modern-day India. As such, they provide a uniquely emotional framework for the essayistic film, which culminates in the universal despair of cinematic youth activism that is mercilessly put down. In its nostalgic 16 millimeters ambience with dreamy black and white images strongly reminiscent of the '68 student movement, A Night of Knowing Nothing becomes an amorphous document capable of shattering realities across history thanks to its explosive nature.