Namak revolves around a family of three women — a mother and two daughters — who are coping with the pandemic and its resulting shortcomings by telling each other stories and faking there is food on their plates. The play exposes how nationalism has been used to hide administrative incompetence and the price the poor have paid. It is about the way impoverished families have had to cope with the lack of dignity they have been subjected to in order to get minimum supplies of food