He is befriended by Sena, a ghost who has offered to help. There is one problem: Maali cannot communicate with the living. He has seven moons to somehow communicate the location of the photographs to the two people he cares about most and trusts-his great love, DD, and his best friend Jaki, DD’s cousin-hoping they will know what to do with the photos. Under a bed in his home, Maali has hidden a box of photographs documenting the war, the killing of innocents and the complicity of those now in power: photographs that he believes, if published, will rock the country.
The war is over but not the killings, as the government gets rid of those who threaten it.
Maali worked as a photographer documenting the Sri Lankan civil war. Here they can wander as ghosts in the world for seven moons (seven days), after which they either move on to the Light or are forever stranded in the In Between. Souls arrive at a place called the In Between. It takes him a while to realize he is dead, and he has no idea how he died.
Maali Almeida, a gay Sri Lankan photographer, wakes up to find himself dead, his soul in a place that seems like a government office. All stories conclude with a fade to black.” Many are born to homes with books, many grow up in the swamps of war. “All stories are recycled and all stories are unfair.
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