Celebrated filmmaker Deepa Mehta investigates one of India’s most notorious crimes — the 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus — in her angry, impassioned and essential new film.

A down and out cop lands the case of a lifetime when four suspects are nabbed in the assassination attempt of a prime time journalist. The case turns out to be a devious maze where nothing is what it looks like. The pursuit of it leads him to the dark netherworld - the 'Paatal Lok', and to shocking discoveries in the past of the four suspects.

印度首部反乌托邦故事《寻女苦旅》以虚构世界雅利安伐尔塔为背景，那里充满了巨大的苦难，高压极权的婚恋规则，对纯洁、共产的痴迷引发的虚构极端事件，戏剧性社会分裂事件，以及坚韧和勇气。
《寻女苦旅》中的故事发生在政治和情感上的反乌托邦世界雅利安伐尔塔，讲述了一位母亲对女儿永恒的爱。
该剧集已于 2019 年 6 月 14 日面向支持 Netflix 的全球 190 个国家和地区上线