Kopi, Puffs & Dreams

At the turn of the twentieth century, two young men from Palakkad, Puthu and Krishnan, meet aboard a ship bound for Malaya, and strike up an instant connection. Over the next two decades, they set up a restaurant in Singapore selling curry puffs and kopi, become successful, get married and start families. However, Krishnan harbours a dark secret that threatens to destroy the dreams he and Puthu have built together, a secret that only carelessness can reveal…

© 2021 by Pallavi Gopinath Aney. Published in paper format in Singapore by Epigram Books, recorded by Storyside 2022.