“Love is nothing if not madness!” For Raina, though, madness is no longer a poetic metaphor. She has a family pockmarked with mental maladies—some diagnosed and some not—and now she has started fearing for her own sanity.
Because the young man she met a year ago, the one whose mind, memories and movements mirrored hers, might never have existed.
What if the Kamal she is 'madly' in love with had been a hallucination??
As Raina travels and makes stories of her travels, is this, then, her Imrama: a voyage from the coast to an Other-worldly island, where Kamal had once lost himself years ago? Is it also a journey into a hitherto-unexcavated sunken kingdom of her psyche?