Lifescape adorns a truly rustic veil as it unfolds the village life of Kutch in the decades of crises, their struggle to combat with the external forces of nature, social and economic injustice, and to adapt themselves to new, unfavourable conditions. Boorabhai Rawabhai Changa, is an elderly, enlightened, unlettered man who, with his wisdom and motivation and his abiding faith in the common people, was responsible for bridging a broken culture. The pivotal character is Gulaali, a victim of brutal rape and stigmatised by society, who, after her traumatic experience is through a painful process of sculpting her own identity gradually becomes an embodiment of emancipation.