In a forest, five rivers overflow their banks into canals and estuaries. Both humans and trees lose land beneath their feet. The more-than-humans consistently change routes as unknown large shadows keep taking over their usual routes.

In archive of ruins, Reetu Sattar looks into the sounds around a forest divided by borders, controlled by upstream barrages, and sustained by more than 35 mangrove species, along with mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, dolphins, and humans. Reetu seeks to understand land through its lost or silenced knowledges. How do humans and more-than-humans carry memory in their bodies, and how do soil, water, and plants retain stains and traces of violence?

On the coasts around the forest, the land and the lives have been tacitly reduced to evaporated and melted tactility of salt and water. Both human and more-than-humans overlap at a thick edge where impermanence seems like a culture. People float with the six-hourly high and low tides, the more-than-humans too. Upstream, large barrages on international rivers control the flow downstream, which results in high salinity and rising temperatures, loss of fish flow and arable lands. The sounds here are feral, abandoned and unnoticed, but parts of their lives are constantly changing tacitly.

The investigation identifies and collects losses retained in forgotten sounds of indigenous festivals, sounds by more-than-humans that are mute to human ears, and ties them to anthropomorphic myths and fables found around the region.