And a man enters a discotheque after a bitter divorce and re-learns the terror of falling in love all over again. A girl encounters a transvestite on an MRT train ride who tells her that she looks like a famous singer. A married couple receives free holiday tickets just when their luck seems to have run out. The characters in each story find themselves in situations that offer them a ticket to hope and change: A video camera transforms the way a resentful daughter sees her widowed mother.
With unsentimental clarity and heartbreaking honesty, Alfian Sa’at writes about HDB dwellers – students, housewives and factory workers, whose lives begin to unravel once they discover that happiness is a fragile thing in a country obsessed with progress and success. Corridor is a collection of short stories all set in present-day Singapore.
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