Winner of the Golden Conch at the Mumbai International Film Festival and the 2003 BBC Audience Award for best documentary at Manchester's Commonwealth Film Festival, 'Way Back Home' is a two-part documentary, by film-maker Supriyo Sen, that tells the story of his parents who had to leave their small town in East Bengal and went to Calcutta after partition.

After 50 years, Sen takes them on an emotional journey back to their birthplace. During the course of the journey, they talk about their home, their neighbours, their flight and their new life in independent India. The film reveals that while they have physically adjusted to their life in Calcutta, they remain mentally attached to their "Desh" (home).

Supriyo’s father describes the politics, the violence, the cruelty and the impact of migration on his own life. His mother is on a special mission to find her lost sister and recalls having to abandon her childhood surroundings for an unknown future.

The film documents modern India’s history, but is also a statement on the plight of the refugee – raising the issue of whether refugees can ever make a way back and return to their home country.