Sri Lanka's Official entry to the 8th Moscow international film festival, won Special Diploma for Female Performance 1976 and the Special award from there peace council of U.S.S.R. Invited and screened at 18 Mostra International Film Festival, Bergamo, Italy 1975.
Coming Of Age is a film about the stresses of life in a small rural village. Susila's mother struggles to bring up the family alone in the absence of a father who had passed away. In order to make ends meet she keeps a lodger, the Gramasevaka, the chief village authority. One day Susila comes of age. The sudden social prominence of her sexuality attracts the attention of young men around her. The Gramasevaka begins to court her and asks her for her hand. But she does not seem to have control over either her sexuality or her own person. Her surroundings dominate her life and she is forced to make choices that are no choices at all.
