When All the Birds Are Singing

She told herself that she can never give her heart to another man. In case he comes back, she wants him to know that her heart is still the same, devoted and waiting for him. . .

Ga Yee has never forgotten her first love-the boy who tucked a sunflower leaf behind her ear and said, "I think you are the most beautiful sunset, lady. My day is incomplete without you," the boy who wrote to her of his hope that they live together one day in a house between hills, the boy who dreamt of flying like Icarus, the boy who promised that he will return.

When she learns from a schoolmate during a reunion that the boy has been in a coma for five years, Ga Yee for the first time travels overseas to see him.

Feelings that are soundless, a lea's song heard only by the still sunflowers, Ga Yee hums the tiny voice of a steadfast heart, one that will devote itself to a true love that only comes once in a hundred moons.

But with the passing of time, what is the likelihood of a faithful heart changing?