Quand les etoiles rencontrent la mer (When the stars meet the sea)

The story opens with a newborn infant put in a cattle pen to be trampled to death - the traditional way that superstitious villagers get rid of a child born during a solar eclipse, because it is believed to have supernatural powers of destruction. The baby is rescued by a brave girl, Raivo, who relocates to another village and raises him as her own child. As the boy grows up, he is called Kapila (cripple) because of leg injury sustained in the cattle pen, of which he has only got a vague memory. The boy's only friend is a homeless 7-year-old street urchin who steals from the market until he is beaten to death. Kapila's anger brings down a thunderbolt from the sky to avenge his friend, which reveals him his destructive powers...