The story of a rare friendship between a Canadian feminist filmmaker and the rebellious poet from Kerala.

In 1995, moved by writer Kamala Das’s confessional memoir and erotic, defiant love poems, Montreal author Merrily Weisbord flew to Kerala, South India, to meet the Mother of Modern Indian Poetry, Nobel shortlisted star, hailed and reviled for putting female desire on the page, and for being, as Time Magazine wrote, “The first upper-class Hindu woman to write about her own illicit affairs.” What emerged as “Love Queen of Malabar” is one of the most riveting accounts of the Poet's life. In its own way, it is as relentlessly honest as a woman’s version of Gandhi’s ‘My Experiments with Truth’.

The Love Queen of Malabar will be a visual voyage between East and West, history and self-invention, love and betrayal, spirituality and religion – a journey expanding the boundaries of biography from an unusual, mutually revelatory female friendship.