Leap of Fate

Growing up in the 1950s in a village known as Lorong Limau a group of young Singaporeans found themselves having to navigate livelihoods and relationships in unexpected tragicomic ways. Siblings would turn out to be lifelong enemies money-or rather the lack of it-a crippling nightmare love an ever posture of deception wild gossip the coup de grâce. In spite of it all the unforeseen-even death itself-would every so often become a flint for courage and redemption for some of the protagonists especially Tin a brave teenage girl who continued to defy familial odds and Mona a widow-turned-prostitute who was forced to thwart her own expectations. Equal parts inspired by real-life anecdotes and borne of imagination this story promises to lay bare the struggles and aspirations of those living in that era a place and time unwittingly defined by societal taboos and quirky traditions long vanished from the face of contemporary Singapore. Ultimately it's a story of what it means to be human when fate decides to take a leap.