It’s only in the fifth generation of the poverty-wise eclipsed Arimulla Wariyam that a child is born with the skill sets enough to bring the family fortunes round enough to enable it to live instead of exist. This rebirth starts with Thankam (3rd generation) with her superior foresight and vision, but takes another sixty years to bear fruit. The in-between generations are abortive approximations forward in one way or another:it’s their suffering that engenders the drive to move forward. This drive fathers forth ambition. It’s that which brings the family fortunes round-- with Jimmy Singh(Gen V) transforming the kids how best to attain their life goals. Jimmy Singh (5th generation) is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics also for his discovery of the silicon chip that can fully replace the human brain. “Families, unless upgraded knowledge or skill-wise from generation to generation, are prone to suffer from an Oxbow Bend Syndrome, wherein the glory of its founding father-mother pair is retrieved qualitatively only after whole generations of suffering, and such retrieval is invariably through an offspring!”