JEMIMA ANN BIJU
Dr. Shilpa Das
jemima_b@nid.edu
Anita returns home for her father’s memorial, entering a house thick with silence and unresolved memories. While her mother offers warmth, her father remains a distant figure, lingering only in photographs and a mysterious diary. The journal’s cryptic symbols and torn pages spark surreal visions, leading Anita to her father’s basement lab, the site of a painful childhood accident. There, she discovers a machine designed to explore memory storage and decay. Activating it, Anita is thrust into a collapsing memoryscape of her father’s life, witnessing his gradual decline and hidden longing for forgiveness. In this immersive space, she finds a fragile reconciliation that was impossible in life. Upon awakening, ordinary objects are transformed into vessels of shared meaning. By discussing these revelations with her mother, Anita bridges years of silence, allowing them both to finally rediscover the man he was and the man he truly wished to be.