The play takes an ironic look at the funeral rites using the traditional musical mode. In the Gujarati version of the play the elements of gujarati bhakti sangeet, akhyan and dayro have been used, to enhance its rich dose of black humor, pure fun, and the sense of a community coming to terms with death. The play deals with the lives of lower middle-class urban people confronting their cultural history in the face of modernity. The Hero and Narrator is the departed soul of an ordinary man who resides in a typical ''pol'' with his wife and a son. He himself offers a sort of running commentary on the various rituals for cremation and aftermath. His observations are marked with satire, parody, ridicule and censure. The 'presence of the absent one' has been beautifully transformed into a drama, along with all the social contexts the ritual has got. The fantasy of external or wandering soul is a motif which is found in folk-based stories worldwide.
