Ovar’s Drum

At midday, the apartment block is relatively quiet. Kids are in school or day care, and most of the adults are working in their fields. Six-year-old Ovar, however, does not go to school. Seriously disabled, he has not learned to talk and rarely meets the eyes of those around him, but he will improvise a drum out of items-at-hand. Today, he plants himself in the open back door of his family’s home, intent on his beat.