Selfish days. A lifetime of echoes.

In 1970s Melbourne, four teenagers—Luke, Coral, Josh, and Ruby—move through a season of bravado, desire, and quiet betrayal. What unfolds is not a love triangle but a shifting architecture of longing: the disciplined girl caught in a tangle, the boy who hesitates, the one who runs, and the clever one who changes the balance without understanding the cost.

Decades pass. The friends disperse into separate lives shaped by broken friendships, marriages, loss, and the lingering consequences of choices made in youth. Yet the old questions—Who is the girl for you? What's a girl to do?—continue to echo through adulthood, where memory refuses to leave the past behind.

Told in spare, cinematic free verse, Pappus & Sonder bends time the way memory does—sideways, layered, recursive. Long-ago summers become a museum of echoes, where love, regret, and forgiveness continue to shape the lives that follow, and memory keeps asking the questions time cannot answer.