Half the Sky

Devika, a highly intelligent, ambitious young woman enters politics, trying to emulate her aunt, the first female Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka). At university she has a brief affair with a fellow student, Tony, a charming young man, but one who comes from the opposite end of the social spectrum. Tony goes to London to become a writer. A few years later, their love affair is reignited when Devika comes on holiday to London. She uses her business acumen to help Tony find the money and a West End theatre to stage his play, a feminist political satire. When an indiscriminate act threatens to sabotage Devika's political career, Tony feels obliged to return and help her. As their lives and careers converge, they must decide whether love is more important than their fierce, mutual wish to give their motherland a succession of female Prime Ministers. Set in the 1960s and told in the voices of a largely female ensemble cast, Half The Sky is a lighthearted story about the struggles of modern women to be recognised as equals in a male-dominated world.