The loom`s fabric represents all of it: time and space and peoples fate being caught up in it, rendering a unique story for everyone – and each and everyone is waving their own fabric, taking part in waving other people’s fabrics as well.īuddhist believes state, roughly, that all human beings have a soul or a higher self which derives from God – an eternal being, the primal ground and source, who is everything and nothing at the same time. But she also experiences the utter beauty that lies in exactly that: the pain and the love and the loss and all the precious memories she got to gather which will always stay with her. And she realises how painful and excruciating all of it can be. She gets to know what it means to worry, to work, to love, to struggle. As an immortal being, Maquia feels so lonely and because of that loneliness fate brings her out into the world of humans to experience life as a human being, a friend, a mother. Essentially, the story is about life and how it consists of an endless cycle of love and loss – grown out of loneliness perhaps. The story follows the changing relationship between the two as Ariel grows up and Maquia does not.
Wandering alone in the forest, she finds Ariel, a baby boy who has lost his parents. Maquia is able to escape, but she loses her friends and her home. Leilia, the most beautiful girl in her clan, is taken away, and the boy Maquia has secret feelings for disappears. Their peace is shattered when an army invades, seeking the secret to her people's immortality. She has no parents and, although her days are peaceful, she feels lonely. The story begins with Maquia, who is from a magical race where all the members stop aging in their mid-teens.