Fire-Within (Synopsis)

Today for the first time I am posting a Synopsis and this is from my latest work. This story loosely named “Antar-Dah”, it is very difficult to translate the word, if you go by the book then it means “Mental agony” but let us call it “Fire Within”. If I translate the story in English then certainly name it “Untold Story of Lisa Dias”.

Story

Jean, an eighteen years old girl from Salem, comes to Mumbai to study electrical engineering. She got a chance to enroll herself in one of the prestigious college in India. On the first night itself, Jean got a CD containing a single file. She was stun by the content, her mother was against her coming to Mumbai but she never thought that it had something to do with her mother's own past. A very dark and painful truth that Jean has to face and it was all about her mother.
Here onwards, what Jean will do?


Characters


Lisa Dias

After losing her mother and brother in an accident, Lisa comes to Mumbai with her father. Being a Christian, she was able to get an admission in a Convent school but due to poverty, she had to fight against all odds to keep her school going days intact. However, all hell breaks out with Lisa’s father death. Lisa, then seventeen years old, all alone, penniless found herself on the dark lane of Mumbai. Finally, she decorated herself in a plate and started serving to the sex-starved man. Lisa Dias matured like an old but child in her heart, a unique combo.


Ronnie Fernanades

Ronnie’s father was a lawyer and mother was a teacher. While studying in school Ronnie met Lisa. After completing school, Ronnie had to move to Bangalore but after two years, he had to come back to Mumbai to enroll in a law college. At that time Ronnie, became handicapped due to an accident that also took away his father and mother. While studying in college Ronnie tried to locate Lisa but found a new building coming up at the same place where once Lisa used to stay and nobody could tell him anything about Lisa’s whereabouts.


Bhikhu Patil

At age of 15, Bhikhu came to Mumbai from Belunki Village of Kolhapur. He worked as Mathadi, mainly carrying fruits and vegetables at Masjid Bunder. Bhikhu used to stay in a slum near DhobiGhat Colaba. Bhikhu was married and has two daughters. When nearing fifties, Bhikhu enable to continue as a goods carrier and finally landed himself in a Gujarathi Business Man’s house as a household helper. Here Bhikhu came face to face with an eighteen years girl name Lisa Dias.


Jean Fernandes (1)

Twenty-five years old, Jean was an architect. While travelling in local train Jean came to know Lisa but apart from exchanging smile and little hi’s and bye’s, there was nothing more between them. Nevertheless, for Lisa, Jean was having a very special place in her life and when she gave birth to a daughter, she named her Jean too.


Suhash Patil

Twenty-seven years old, Suhash Patil was the only son of a Real Estate giant from Mumbai. A spoiled brat and an offender having encountered with numerous offences but he was always unscathed, thanks to the loophole in the law and the system. More than once Suhash Patil tried entering Lisa’s flat but was enable to get in, once he even tried
to kill Bhikhu Patil to revenge this.


Plot Summary

After nine long years while waiting for a train, Ronnie met Lisa in a railway station. During one of the meeting, Lisa informed him the truth about her and requested him to distance himself from her. Nevertheless, they kept bumping into each other and as a result, they came close to each other. After a year Ronnie had to go away from Mumbai for a few days, just before leaving, he put a proposal in front of Lisa; she hesitated but finally accepted it. While waiting for Ronnie and looking forward to a new life, in a cold rainy night of December Lisa herself walked towards the man called Suhash Patil. What compelled Lisa to do this?


Some quotes from the story:

!!!If Jesus Christ can be crucified then why not me?!!!
!!!If I am happy for a reason that will be the biggest gain, why celebrate for it?!!!
!!!Sympathy is a very funny thing, sometime soothing and sometime insulting.!!!