Winner of the "crossword book Award-jury Award for fiction" and the "Tata literature live" 1st book Award (fiction). Sometime in the near future, in a digital city, walls emerge dividing and enclosing populations as a puritan preoccupation grows. Behind the fortifications, a strict civic order is in place. Shalini is forced to look for Leila, the daughter she tragically lost one summer sixteen years ago, in the neglected gaps between, where trash accumulates and sickness festers. Shalini, who was previously privileged and may have had a troubled past but is now an outcast who has been thrown to the fringes, is only driven by her hunt as she avoids surveillance systems and obnoxious repeaters. The narrative that follows is one of loss, hope, and most of all, longing. With its unwavering focus on class, privilege, and the decisions we face today