There is a saying in Sanskrit, "Matru Devo Bhava", that is, 'Mother is God'. To say that Maa retires from a family is therefore like saying that God retires from the world. Like most families, the protagonist family in the play is emotionally embattled. There are the sons whose part of the world lies beyond their mother's home; the husband who believes that he is responsible only for the material part of the home and the daughter who had eloped and thereby shunned the home. But what is Maa left with? What is that she would seek to protect? A new journey must begin; after all she is as much of a human being as her children and her husband.

Sudha, the protagonist of the play, chooses to retire. It is a journey away from home that symbolises the essential loneliness of every human being. The play leaves us with the question whether the belief that each human being is an island can ever bring peace to us. Or, do we need to expand the walls that we have created around us by limiting of our compassion? That is, can we feel at an emotional level the concept of, 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (the world is a family)?