It is 1984, and New Delhi is simmering with ethnic strife as anti-Sikh riots erupt after Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's assassination. This cataclysmic event serves as the backdrop to the day-to-day ordinariness of an immigrant Bengali family's life. Chhobi, the elder, sensitive and intelligent, is forever trying to rein in beautiful, Narcisstic Sonali. Ma, their mother, struggles with her loneliness after being widowed in her thirties; Dida is their feisty ...
