A room flooded with light, heavy breathing - Piyal's mother is dying. Feelings of guilt and deep loss after her death drive the young man to the city, where he moves into a simple room. Attracted by the voice of a neighbor, he secretly eavesdrops on the young woman and her boyfriend during intimate moments. After initial fantasies, he catches glimpses of Amanda and gets closer to her in brief conversations ...
The images of Prasanna Jayakody, an important representative of cinema in Southeast Asia, and his cinematographer Palitha Perera are of an expressive beauty. Their staging of spatial surfaces and light symbolize the moods of the main character and thus become meditative explorations of pain, passion, sexual desire, guilt and death. Prasanna Jayakody was born in 1968 as the son of a writer and grew up in a Buddhist environment, which also influenced him artistically. Jayakody's first film, Sankara, was an international critical success in 2005. He went on to make television dramas for a wide audience. Karma is his second feature film.
