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They are a family ,who are divided by time and distance, love and anger.
A mother in Calcutta ,India, a daughter in California( west coast America) and a son in Vermont (in the American east). -
Tarum's sister travel.
Ten years after they took separate paths.Tarum's sister visits him to tell him that his mother is very ill, but she can't find the time to tell him. -
Childhood memories during the trip
Tarum's sister remembers that before taking each one of them separately, she remembers that they were a very united family, Tarum and his sister loved to hear stories from their mother as they cooked. -
The fish have the intelligence of wild things
During the boat trip Tarum's sister begins to worry about the fish under the boat.In my opinion, I think it's because we often worry about things in life that don't need that worry. These situations are solved by the intelligence of wild things, hence the example in the book of fish dodging the elices of the boat, -
Tarum speaks to his sister of a red-haired bride
In this part of the story, Tarum's sister sees a photo of a girl with red hair and asks him if this is his girlfriend, he says yes. Tarum's sister gets very angry because she doesn't tell him that she had a girlfriend, but she understands that in 10 years a lot happens. -
Abhimaan in the face of Tarum.
A few weeks before Tarun arrived in VermontMalabika ,Tarum's mother argues terribly with him, because he wants to stay in Calcutta with her forever, but she has fear of being murdered, because of the wars that were taking place. After that fight, Tarum went to Vermount and never called her again. -
Sandeep the husband of Tarum's sister
In this part of the story Tarum's sister relates the frustration of not being able to help her brother Tarum during the first years in Vermount, because her husband Sandeep did not want to welcome relatives. -
Tarum calls his sister less and less.
Since Tarum moved to Vermount , calls from him to his sister were becoming less frequent. -
Tarum's sister wants to take her mother to California.
Tarum's sister when arriving at the airport in Calcutta sees on her mother's face that she will die soon and asks her to go with her to California, but she tells him that she prefers to die in Calcutta where her husband died and her children were born, the desperate daughter asks her mother what she wants and this tells her to see her children before she dies. -
Remembrance of the Didi birds
Just at the end of the story Tarum and his sister find themselves on a boat and suddenly observe a group of white birds flying over them, this moment reminds her of her childhood when Tarum and she visited their cousins and as they did not like them, they were going to jump and jump down the slope of the mountain. At that moment the two brothers hug each other and find the connection they had lost after their childhood. -
First possible end of the story.
At that moment when the two brothers are hugging, the sister tells Tarum that her mother is dying. The next day the two brothers take a boat from Vermount to Calcutta and there they meet their mother who is still alive. -
Second possible end of the story
When the two brothers hug each other on the boat, they notice that one of those birds flies towards them and embraces them with its wings, there they realize that the bird represents their mother, and that she has just died.
