The Staggering Depths of Blissfulness

The Staggering Depths of Blissfulness is a story about love, the loss of innocence and wonder. When Emceeaye, a young man whose life is marked by alternating events of staggering beauty and anguished tragedy, is uprooted from his simple Laotian village to attend college in New York, everything that he believes to be true about life is suddenly opened up to doubt. His quick assimilation into Western life leaves him feeling confused and rudderless, but under the tutelage of a blind man with extraordinary perceptive abilities, Emceeaye learns to harness the power of the “three dominions”, hauntingly beautiful sensory experiences that blur the boundaries between reality and dreams, and sanity and insanity. Emceeaye’s obsession with the alluring beauty of the three dominions threatens to destroy the single most beautiful things in his life, a delicately layered and tenderly woven relationship with his girlfriend Melina. In a race to unravel the secrets behind the “three dominions”, Emceeaye must weigh his decisions carefully. Succeed, and he will re-discover the joy of a previous life. Fail, and he will forever lose Melina.