An author who is unable to proceed with his story meets an intriguing young woman who promises to help him write. She seems to be the perfect reader, empathetic, intelligent, involved.</p>Over the next few months the author finds himself writing a story that is not his and living a life that he does not wish to see himself in. </p>As the reader invades into the innermost spaces of his life, the colonial past of Pondicherry mingles with the multicultural present of the coastal town to make The Trespasser a story of storytelling and takes the readers on a journey of reading and living life as a story. </p>