Wail of the Conch

Osman returns to his ancestral village on a stormy night the village he had fled in the dark of the night 27 years ago He finds shelter in the home of Mannaf Khan a village elder Osman seeks to rediscover his childhood and goes about reliving the past in childhood memories He meets Kunjo Buri who had nursed him as an infant He also meets his boyhood friend Fazlu Osman is not after worldly gains he only wants to spend the rest of his life in the village and the nostalgia of bygone days That However is not to be He comes face to face with a reality of a markedly different kind