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Things We Lost Last Night (2024), the last chapter of A Discreet Exit Through Darkness, follows Bose's mother, who has prosopagnosia, or face blindness, and to this day struggles to recount what happened to her during the three years she was missing. The strangest part lies in the fact that, due to prosopagnosia, his mother is unable to recall any detail of those three years, as if her memory of that period has been wiped clean. She lives her childhood in two phases, one before her disappearance, one after her rescue, with the intervening years a massive void. Told as a three-channel film, it speculates on her journey through her own interior monologue as a grown woman, braiding together a disjointed, hallucinatory tale of unrest, conflicting belief, and imagination. The film draws on piecemeal accounts from her diary, interspersed with rarely recounted episodes of the social unrest West Bengal experienced through the 1960s and 70s, gathered by Bose from hundreds of archival newspapers. Built on this research, the narrative moves between places, times, and characters, a one-eyed old woman, a Maoist-communist guerrilla, a trip to the sinking holy town of Joshimath, the Sain massacre, weaving an intimate family story into the psyche and repressed memory of that period's upheaval and mass agitation.
