There’s no sex or romance in “A Place of Our Own,” no hormone therapy, surgical consulations or discussion of “transitioning.”

This simple slice-of-life/fly on the wall drama is about two transgender friends’ struggle to find a house or apartment they can call “home,” somewhere they can be safe from discrimination, harassment, exploitation and violence.

As this story takes place in Bhopal, India, there’s also no mention of what that city is infamous for. Which is fine, because finding housing under slow-to-evolve Indian attitudes and social conditions is dramatic enough to warrant its own movie.

New-to-acting transgender women Manisha Soni and Muskan play Laila and Rhoni, two roommates and friends who share accommodations by necessity. It’s damned near impossible for even one of them to find a place they can rent. It takes both of them forever and a day to search, meet with realtors or landlords, endure homophobic rejections and hold down steady jobs as they hunt.

Laila is a college-eductated counselor at the New Hope Social & Mental Health Clinic. Rhoni is personal cook for a demanding wealthy family, a job she shows up for as Sandeep, the male she was born with.

The trouble starts when a stranger comes pounding on the door of their latest place, making come-ons, insinuations and threats to Laili, who has the good sense not to open it. She is frightened.

Just getting the landlord to accept that this isn’t their fault, that some creep scoped them moving in, decided they were transgender sex workers, proves impossible. Getting the jerk to refund their money will be another difficult task.

Using a transgender person’s different sex birth name as an excuse to not complete a wire transfer refund is a new one on me.

They meet with one real estate agent after another, most of whom seem to accept — however grudgingly — the country’s anti-discrimination laws. But one is so “curious” about “your condition” that their meeting becomes an interrogation. Others shrug them off, or meekly accept a property-owning woman’s angry “I won’t rent to ‘those’ people” (in Hindi with English subtitles) rebuff.

Things are so bad that there’s only one tuk tuk (three-wheeled taxi) driver that they can trust. We wonder if there’s an attraction thing going on with driver Sharukh (Aakash Jamra) and Laili. His reason for helping them out is more poignant than that.

Even a trip to a public restroom is fraught with peril. If someone complains, each is afraid of just how little officialdom will do to back them up, or if their lives will get harder through more threats and violence.

The acting here is somewhat flat and unemotional. And there’s little that’s truly surprising in “A Place of Our Own,” as this sort of gay and transgender story has been more openly told in the West for a couple of decades, now.

But it’s compelling because it reminds one that transgender discrimination is wrong, in every culture, and just how venal, backward and dumb a person doing the discriminating comes off, no matter what language they speak and cultural tradition they claim to be “defending.”

Rating: unrated

Cast: Manisha Soni, Muskan, Aakash Jamra and Mahima Singh Thakur

Credits: Directed by The Ektara Collective, scripted by Rinchin Rinchin, Maheen Mirza and Manishi Soni. A Dark Star release.

Running time: 1:28