Appu left Chennai when she was 10 year old with lots of memories of the beautiful city. She missed Gopi Anna who used to take her to school and music classes. He took care of her as his own daughter .
She never said goodbye to him on their last day in the city as Anna had gone to his village for his marriage.
It was after 34 years she was returning to Chennai to visit her maternal home. She was a busy dermatologist in New York city with her son studying in London and her husband settled in London too. They had been married for last 20 years. Both had met at the medical college. She was ambitious and felt claustrophobic with her family life in London so she took a promotion and moved to New York. Now their only son ,Ravi had met with an accident and was admitted in hospital in Chennai. Both parents had reached the hospital but their son whom they had not met in last six months was in ICU.
Appu knew some difficult decision had to be made. Finally Arjun agreed and signed the papers. All the organs were donated of their young son. Arjun after performing the last rites and blaming his wife for everything had left for London. Appu had not cried at all. She had planned to come back to India and settle with her son in India where he wanted pursue his love for photography. Both mother and son had planned to shift to Pondicherry which was a surprise planned for Arjun who always wanted to come back to India. Ravi loved his parents very much and mostly interacted with them thru facetime . It had been just a year ago when Appu had moved to New York but she was not happy their as well. She felt something was missing in her busy life. She was just waiting for next few weeks to be back with her son.
Gopi Anna’s daughter needed a heart transplant and the surgery went fine . Appu went to meet this beautiful girl and left a letter which had a poem of hope which was given to her by her caretaker when she had left Chennai . She thought now this girl needed it more than her. Gopi Anna came running to the reception looking for Appu as he recognised the letter on the bedside.
Appu had left to the airport to board the flight for London to be with Arjun.