Multi-layered, multi-faceted examination of a complex and interesting life and its time and place: post-colonial Malaysia at a time when, seeking its own independence after years of rule by colonial powers and brutal oppression by the occupying Japanese, it is trying to suppress a rebellion of its own. The life examined is something of a microcosm of the greater Malay. The protagonist is a survivor of horrors unable to forgive, but yet an inflictor herself, enabling an oppressor. Justified by the law she serves, she comes slowly to examine that role and its victims, even as she knows she will soon forget. The Garden of Evening Mists is a tale of woe, memory, loss and, ultimately forgetting. A love story full of discovery.