Ketut and the Thousand Herons


Inspired by a recent trip to Bali; the beauty of the rice fields and the majesty of the white herons make their way into this touching story about how music and a young boy named Ketut were able to release the hold that the dark night sky had on the world.

There was a time that the world was in darkness.  Day in, day out, night in, night out a blanket of darkness covered the sky.  Life was cold, life was hard, hardly anything grew… and life would have continued on this way if it weren’t for a string of islands they called Indonesia and an island in the middle of that string of islands they called Bali and a young boy in the middle of that island they called Ketut…