In the opening scene of Shaunak Sen's documentary, Cities of Sleep, we hear the clink of a watchman's stick on the wide boulevards of Central Delhi. The streets are empty, save a lonely dog. Cities of Sleep does away with romantic notions of the homeless improvising a makeshift bed in random parks and passageways. We are about to see how sleep, upheld by the Indian Supreme Court as a fundamental right[1], comes to be regulated by hierarchies of private property, turf-lords, and the state. Cities of Sleep captures the half-awake, somnolent daze through which a man named Shakeel navigates this complex nocturnal economy. To sleep while homeless in Delhi is to enter relations of financial and social debt.