sensessions
During a routine move into a new London house, fifteen-year-old Meera Sen uncovers a fragile poem hidden inside an old box carried over from her former apartment. Written in elegant hand on fine French paper, the verse addresses an unnamed Lady of the Veena and speaks of lamps, learning, and a pearl preserved through hunger and night. Its language is devotional, yet its imagery unsettles. The poem seems to remember something no one alive can fully explain.
What begins as idle curiosity soon gathers weight. As Meera shares the poem with her parents, fragments of family memory stir, drawing them back to Kolkata and beyond, into conversations half-finished, histories half-forgotten, and places long avoided. The poem appears to be older than expected, its clues scattered across libraries, river towns, and an ancestral house standing between decay and desire.
As Meera and her cousins follow its trail, they discover that the poem is not merely inherited but contested. Competing interpretations emerge, along with pressures both intimate and external. Some see promise, others profit. Some wish the past preserved, others erased.
With tensions rising and the poem revealing only what it chooses to, Meera must learn how knowledge travels across generations, and why certain things are hidden not to be lost, but to be protected.