Shanghai - A Year To Remember: Learning the Meaning of Love, Loss, Hope and True Friendship

His life revolved around work, Chinese lessons, friends, travel and health, while occasionally trying to find love, as was the case for close to ten years. He lived an average life and made efforts not to stick out. While some would call this sort of life boring, Anand was content with this way of living and loved the anonymity this city of 24 odd million residents offered. He was an ordinary man living an ordinary life, and the only way he stands out is when he speaks Mandarin, which he speaks reasonably well, although with a Malayalee accent.  

He had no way of knowing that his boring, routine life, that he loved so much was going to change almost overnight with a seemingly random encounter in a metro station.

What started as a random encounter in a subway, leads to a sequence of life-changing events spread over a year, starting with reconnecting with a long-lost friend in the unlikeliest of the places, and ending with rediscovering the meaning of his existence, love, loss, hope and friendship.