Ayyan Mani works as an assistant at the Institute of Theory and Research, where he studies with amusement and envy the public battles and private love affairs of the squabbling scientists. Partly to entertain himself, partly to cheer up his once-animated but now work-worn wife, partly to bolster his ten-year-old son¡¦s confidence, Mani weaves an outrageous fiction around the boy ¡X a fiction that captures the interest of his superiors and threatens to set into motion an unstoppable and disastrous chain of events. Manu Joseph's archly comic debut is a tale of a man's attempt to elevate himself and his family above the banality of ordinary existence.
