Furious words and feisty characters fill the stage in this Young Adult play about the first delegation from Earth to address an Inter-Galactic conference.
The story centers on Om, who signs up to be an organ donor for an American woman nammed Ginni because there are no other jobs available for him in Mumbai. Ginni pays him to lead a clean and healthy life so that she can harvest healthy organs whenever she needs them.
A man confesses that he has 'stamped out' countless 'hidden fires' - human lives that are less than human to him, merely faceless threats to his own security - and then finds himself on the receiving end of the same ruthless treatment.
Six contestants, three women, three men, prepare to face the final round of a TV game-show designed to help themselves win a mate and a dowry - if they're lucky. If they're unlucky, they face forfeits including torture and death, live in front of an audience of millions. the subtext of the play is the practice known euphemistically in the Indian press as "Dowry Death" in which young brides who have brought insufficient dowries are murdered by their husbands and in-laws, frequently by being burned alive, so that the man can marry again and gain a fresh dowry.