Description
A young student sits on a bench in a park in San Miguel, Mexico.
Bonita is away from her home in India to learn Spanish.
She is alone, somewhere she has no connection to.
It is bliss.
And then a woman approaches her.
The woman claims to recognize Bonita because she is the spitting image of her mother, who made the same journey from India to Mexico as a young artist.
No, says Bonita, my mother didn’t paint.
She never travelled to Mexico.
But this strange woman insists, and so Bonita follows her.
Into a story where Bonita and her mother will move apart and come together, and where the past threatens to flood the present, or re-write it.
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