TERRIBLE CHILDREN follows the filmmaker's discovered story about her Indian father, who was banished for marrying her Danish mother, via a letter that had remained unopened for 20 years. The story explores the inner world of masculinity and race through boyhood in a paramilitary group, Muslim-Hindu riots during India's Partition, to Denmark's Nazi occupation during the same decade. Lyrical nightmares and archival dreams unravel war, love, and redemption across three continents.