Divya Ramaswamy

The Monsoon Touch Divya Ramaswamy

Meera is a reclusive young girl, a stickler for the truth and facts, and a strong memory for faces. She takes pleasure in her ability to create magic with food, taking inspiration from her laughter and love filled childhood in Pilerne, a quaint idyllic village in Goa. She still doesn't quite understand how her world turned upside down and lives in fear and anticipation of the past catching up her, while clinging on to the hope that she will truly know how her sister, Maya died.

Neil is the only person in his world, he cannot let anyone else in. He has resigned himself to living in the past, as he believes he has neither present nor hope of a future. What should have been a carefree holiday with loved ones had turned into a nightmare that would shroud his entire existence. A chance encounter, with striking similarities to what happened fifteen years ago, feels too real, too meaningful to be a coincidence.

The events of one treacherous monsoon resulted in a strange intertwining of Meera and Neil's lives, despite their merely being aware of the others' existence. Can the past be unravelled in three nights through yet another furious Mumbai monsoon? By two people - Neil who is wary of Meera and what she brings out in him, and Meera who implicitly trusts him?