There is no official trace, no way to prove my connection to my father. Born in exile during the Second World War, the son of a revolutionary, my father had no birth certificate. When he arrived in Melbourne during the ‘White Australia’ policy, he reinvented himself. He changed his identity, age, heritage, and religion to marry my mother and obtain citizenship. This was an early deception. It was not the first nor the last. Based on my relationship with my father and my family, ‘Five Incarnations’ is a highly personal story of reinvention. It is also a story of victims who are women in their 20s from small communities all over the world. I use my video camera like a detective uses a notepad to confront my father in our family’s living room in India. I risk everything. I do it for my mother, my stepmother, my father’s former lover. I do it for myself.