The Seen and Unseen

Tantra and Tantri are inseparable When they secretly steal eggs from the familys sacrificial offering Tantri always gets the whites and Tantra the yolks One day however the yolk is missing as is Tantra Her brother gravely ill and in hospital Tantri starts slipping into magical parallel worlds approaching the inevitable farewell through costumes body paint and dance When at one point Tantris mother washes the paint from her face it is as if tenderly to expel the illusion that things can remain as they are In long dream sequences and against the background of the Balinese philosophy of sekala the seen and niskala the unseen Andini relates how one tenyearold girl deals with parting and grief