- Sasitha is the underpaid delivery guy working for 'Giftnet' an online shopping service. Forever scheming to migrate, he juggles multiple virtual relationships with Sri Lankan women working abroad while also getting involved with the wealthy women living alone in Colombo, recipients of the parcels he delivers. But when none of his plans to escape his dreary life materialize, Sasitha becomes desperate and more reckless than usual
- Bahuchithawadiya (The Undecided) explores the life of Sasitha (protagonist), 27, who is the only delivery person employed by Giftnet, an Internet based business which accepts gift orders from customers living outside Sri Lanka. Like most youth living in a peripheral region of global capitalism Sasitha is faced with economic pressures, irrational sexual relations and a sense of social alienation. Driven by the dream of achieving a materialistically better life, Sasitha sees migrating 'abroad' as the only way out. He rides a motorbike daily in the city of Colombo delivering packages door to door and develops relationships with several of the lonely women he happens to meet on the job. Sasitha is fascinated by the recipients of these gifts - gifts that are sent from spouses or family members living abroad. His spare time is spent on the office computer when his boss isn't looking, in the company of females befriended on Facebook and Skype. Seeing each "relationship" as a potential asset in his many schemes to reach greener pastures, Sasitha picks Sri Lankan women living abroad as his virtual friends. Among them are several women who have migrated as domestic workers to the Gulf region. His efforts though desperate, at times seem halfhearted. When nothing works out, Sasitha struggles to find some ephemeral solace in exploring virtual sexual life. The surrounding socio-political structures seem increasingly bleak. He loses his job and with it his motorcycle. When his real and virtual relationships cross and his plans come crashing down, Sasitha returns to cyber space and surfs the net in search of new relationships.
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