Dinesh is a young man trapped on the frontlines between the Sri Lankan army and the Tamil Tigers. Desensitized to the horror all around him, life has been pared back to the essentials: eat, sleep, survive. All this changes when an older man asks him to marry his daughter Ganga. For a few hours, Dinesh and Ganga explore their new and unexpected connection, trying to understand themselves and each other, until the war once more closes over them. Marks the arrival of an extraordinary new literary voice.