TRUST STUDY #1 reproduces an interview with a worker in the informal banking system known as "hawala." The film presents its own making, where the construct of the interview plays with the role of record-keeping, phone calls, kinship networks, and memory within the hawala banking system. The text of the film sits between a document of the conversation and an unvoiced script for a film. Nostalgic travel images of Pakistan in the 60s serve as background to the text and over the course of the film their provenance is slowly revealed, only making their significance more opaque. "Trust Study #1" is a negotiation between the filmmaker and the anonymous hawala banker.