Maya

While the word Maya, also a woman's name, has several meanings in different traditions, cultures and languages, the one that stands out the most is its Sanskrit meaning - illusion. The word hence gains more significance in a film that is about a character's search for meaning, truth, an understanding of identity and the ability to feel something, especially when induced by a piece of art in a world that might otherwise seem illusory and beyond perceptible realities.

Experimental in its approach, the film simply presents a single character, who sits by herself in a white room, before a painting, coveting the experiences of those who would have felt something at the sight of the creative expression before her. As she laments being deprived of these feelings, a further conversation is invoked on the aforementioned ideas, expressed through a narratorial voice coupled with the woman's bodily movements.

She moves smoothly, covering the distance between herself and the painting, until she is before it. Reaching out to touch the painting allows the gesture to achieve an answer to the conundrums the audience has been presented with so far, along with a loud and resounding expression of self-love that ties the entire narrative together with a single sturdy thread.