Kay told her mentor, Domano, that she knew plenty of people who were happy and fulfilled, though she didn’t believe it herself. He responded softly:

"This is just a picture of their masks. I assure you, what looks like happiness is just a pictureforthemselves and all to see that describes their distractions from the real condition beneath of love confused by pain and fear.

"And also, there is a whisper of something else, out of reach. Something more than what they know, something grand and exquisite. You know of this." 

After years of longing for some clarity and answers, and some sense of purpose and meaning, this old little man, whom she barely knew, had summed up her life in two sentences.

When she asked: “Is this what your tradition is going to teach me, to pursue this unknown?"

Domano's partner Chea responded by running her fingers round and round in a circle: "One can pursue forever and never catch, we teach you how to catch!”