The Bamboo Stalk Imagination and the multiple facets of

and the multiple facets of love

Two rivers

the bright granddaughter of the patriarch

as well as a beautiful meditation on landscape

He only feels darkness wherever he goes

The Bamboo Stalk Imagination and the multiple facets ofJosephine comes to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid. She meets Rashid, and with all the wide eyed naivety of youth, believes she has found true love. But when she becomes pregnant, and with the rumble of the Gulf War growing louder, Rashid abandons her and sends her home with their baby son, Jos. Brought up struggling with his dual identity in the Philippines, Jos clings to the hope of returning to his fathers country when he turns