Nepal, May 16 -- Kanchi is a young woman full of vitality and humour. She speaks, on repeat, of her desire to soar across the sky. To leave. Her admirer and potential lover reminds her that a real world exists outside of that dream.

Kanchi is Everywoman. She is a backstage character in the newly-released movie (My Share of Sky) written and directed by Sahara Sharma and produced by Gaunthali Entertainment and Mana Production.

But Kanchi (Asmita Gautam) represents more than what meets the eye. Every woman imagines and desires, as she lives through the mundane.

The film opens with the allegory of the woman wading deeper and deeper into water in an attempt to pluck the flower of Pompeii. The flower becomes a symbol, a conceit that threads...