This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
The big idea here, I take it, is that death itself is subject to the cycles of death and rebirth. The executioner doesn’t understand how it is that the noose he uses to hang a man can be burnt and its ashes take on healing properties. He doesn’t understand how life comes from death. Worse, he is guilt-stricken over having executed an innocent man. Death himself has become disenchanted with death. He worships Kali, but he can’t embody her anymore.…