A radiant collection of poetry about womanhood, intimacy, and the body politic that together evokes the arc of an ordinary life. Nabaneeta Dev Sen's rhythmic lines explore the joys and agonies of first love, childbirth, and decay with a restless, tactile imagination, both picking apart and celebrating the rituals that make us human. At once compassionate and unsparing, conversational and symphonic, these poems tell of a rope shivering beneath an acrobat's nimble feet or of a twisted, blood-soaked umbilical cord - they pluck the invisible threads that bind us together.

Romantic drama set in South Africa in the early 1950s, the beginning of the apartheid era. Two very different women of Indian origin, timid housewife Miriam (Lisa Ray) and the outspoken and headstrong Amina (Sheetal Sheth), meet and fall in love despite outrage and disapproval from those around them and the oppressive confines of the new apartheid regime.