Petra has been widowed while she is pregnant, knowing that she will need help after the birth of her baby so that she can go back to work she employs a maid.
Nisha is also a widow and she leaves her home in Sri Lanka to look for work and send money home to her mother who is looking after her young daughter.
Nisha had now been living as a maid and looking after Petra’s daughter for nine years but she suddenly disappears without a trace.
A slow moving story about the plight of women and the depths they will go to so that their family can survive.
Christy Lefteri's stories have a profound effect on me. There is such simple beauty and peace in her descriptions amidst violent or destructive settings. In this case, it is the migrating songbirds and their freedom as opposed to the hunting of these birds and the longing and loneliness of the characters..
Nisha is also a widow and she leaves her home in Sri Lanka to look for work and send money home to her mother who is looking after her young daughter.
Nisha had now been living as a maid and looking after Petra’s daughter for nine years but she suddenly disappears without a trace.
A slow moving story about the plight of women and the depths they will go to so that their family can survive.
Christy Lefteri's stories have a profound effect on me. There is such simple beauty and peace in her descriptions amidst violent or destructive settings. In this case, it is the migrating songbirds and their freedom as opposed to the hunting of these birds and the longing and loneliness of the characters..