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A mother and son, a young pregnant woman and a schoolgirl experience the harsh realities of war in Sri Lanka as they also struggle to survive their own personal battles.
The Tamil musician, Rex Periyasamy, is the lead composer in Sinhala films. At the height of his career he marries Kanthi, a Sinhala woman, in keeping with the multicultural milieu of the country's film industry
The war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Tamil separatist group, Tigers is over, but deep scars remain. Lalitha returns to Sri Lanka , to her war torn country and the family she left behind in a time of great turbulence. Memories are hard and bitter: What secrets do her sister, Jessie and brother Anthony hide? Why does Daisy, the distraught mother, cling to the memories in such anguish? Did Fatima teacher curse them all when the Muslim community was evicted in 1990? Why did Jude, her beloved brother disappear? Questions need answers that are not really there. The Single Tumbler is a recuperation of a life lived in pain and betrayal, seeking reconciliation, affirmation and hope.
The story unfolds even as its people embark on a long journey on 1st August, 1905 through place, land, territory, war and peace, home and state into the land of the unknown, to a no-man's land. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, the film takes us on a 100-year journey, through history and memory, into the future.
