KALEIDOSCOPE

The story opens with a young Nepalese girl, who in the absence of a family holds faith in her memories of an older sister, memories which she's certain are real. Whether they are or not, is a choice for the reader to make. Abhu dreams of seeing her sister again and develops an understanding of the world to help her live with the 'weight' she feels. People's wishes, hopes and feelings are our breath, 'breath' fills us, but because 'breath' is heavy, it's important that we 'breathe', with laughter, tears, shouts, action or speech. When we breathe, our breath, our wishes, hopes and dreams, sadness and joy alike fill the sky which is the human heart, the one heart everyone necessarily shares, connecting everyone no matter how physically far apart they may be.

The sky changes as breath fills it, going blue, saffron, amber and eventually black, the night being a result of the human heart being 'full'. As such, darkness isn't negative, it's just full and rich, it scares us because of its sheer weight, but it's the night sky and all things deep in it which is the true form of the human heart. However, at times the sky is heavier even than this and that's why it rains.

Abhu, as the first of the five primary characters to be introduced, is an usher into an exploration of a world that is governed by living breath; this is the story of five people and how they come to terms with or even reject their breath and what that means in their real lives in our world; in which ghosts, asura and gods like Jagannath who taught us to make sweets wander in our hearts, answering our joy, anger, hope and sorrow.