The Five Wounds, Book One · Trailer

Clean Hands: the trailer

Two banks of one river: marble on one side, worn stone on the other. A trolley wheel clicks like a clock, and every shot is split down the middle by the water. 100 seconds, 4K, with sound. Every line on screen is the book's own.

1. 0:00The city cut in two
2. 0:11The wheel
3. 0:20The frame
4. 0:30The divider
5. 0:40Two addresses
6. 0:509:12
7. 1:00Theatre 2
8. 1:10The same minute
9. 1:18The trough
10. 1:28Clean Hands

Every line on screen, with its time

1. 0:00The city cut in twoSeen straight down through the storm, a river cuts the city in two. The water had cut the city in two.
2. 0:11The wheelA trolley wheel down an old corridor of worn stone. Four hundred operations, not one death.
3. 0:20The frameFour hundred names behind glass, under EVERY HEART. EVERY TIME. This man has never lost.
4. 0:30The dividerFrom the back of an ambulance in the rain, a white cow standing on the road divider.
5. 0:40Two addressesTwo corridors, two banks, and the river between them. She is already exactly where I would have sent her.
6. 0:509:12A pink slip held still at 9:12 at night: MEHRA, DR RAGHUNATH. M/79. And there is nowhere to send him.
7. 1:00Theatre 2An empty table under the lamp, and two hands waiting. Before a heart can be mended it must be held.
8. 1:10The same minuteA parked car, the clock at 9:12 again, a face in the glass. Nobody had ever asked what he refused to do.
9. 1:18The troughOne drop on steel, and the long scrub trough: WASH BEFORE. WASH AFTER. Clean, or only washed.
10. 1:28Clean HandsThe title, behind glass. And a hand that opens? Manu Vishranti.

Everything in it, and much more, is on the book's own page. Start reading Clean Hands freeNow the book itself