MIDDLE-AGED Subagyo was frustrated witnessing his wife, still a young woman, spending more time taking care of her fishpond business than looking after him. Paralysed, he spent his days on his only and faithful companion, the wheelchair. It knew his restlessness and understood his loneliness and despair. Subagyo felt all the lonelier as he witnessed how his wife had a close relationship with a much younger man. His life was really empty. “I