Thusitha Laknath

Dans un pays jamais nommé, un jeune homme semble tomber du ciel directement dans la mer et s'échoue sur le rivage. Il se retrouve errant dans les rues d'une ville inconnue jonchées de postes de télévision et d'écrans d'ordinateur abandonnés par des émeutiers. Sous ses yeux, des hommes armés de bâtons en attaquent un autre habillé d'un costume de Mickey. Plus tard, l'inconnu vient au secours d'une jeune femme et parvient à la mettre à l'abri dans la jungle. Parallèlement, deux pêcheurs se racontent la légende du prince qui se cacha dans le tronc creux d'un arbre pour survivre...

An embarrassing problem emerges in a quiet household somewhere in a province of Sri Lanka. The patriarch of a lovely family suddenly dies in front of the TV one fateful night. He experienced something soulfully romantic before his last breath and the most sensitive part of his deceased body still functions without pulse or blood pressure. His two grown sons and a mourning mother are eager to bend down the standing organ to avoid shameful reactions at the funeral.

A Silver screen idol of yesteryear a faded star today. In the web of a scandal the limelight is all her again. A long forgotten secret resurfaces making her undertake the most painful journey ever.

Some are called heroes, some villains. Histories get buried and the dead are resurrected. Sometimes a thread of humanity gets drawn from blurred stories. It could clothe the world one day or stitch together a fallen flag.

Loosely based on Franz Kafka's novella Metamorphosis 'Swaroopa' narrates the story of Gregory Samson and his family of father, mother, sister assisted by a maid within the social transformations taking place in late colonial and early postcolonial Sri Lanka.