During a moment of comedic reprieve in Agam Darshi’s family drama Donkeyhead, protagonist Mona — the black sheep of a Canadian Sikh-Punjabi family — is taking her relatives to task. Her siblings have just parachuted back to Regina, where Mona has been the sole caretaker of their father for seven years since a cancer diagnosis.
Mona’s religious aunt insists that the family hold a paath (the Sikh recitation of holy scriptures) for their father, who has recently suffered a stroke: “My brother needs God and prayer.”
All of the siblings are on board, but Mona stubbornly yells, “Our father needs peace and quiet.“
