Aradhana’s wealthy and protective parents bring her up to be obedient to the demands of tradition, and when she is eighteen, arrange her marriage to the rich and eligible Divakar. Transported from the warmth of her native Madurai to the hill town of Darjeeling, Aradhana finds herself trapped in an environment of violence and isolation which her abusive husband creates. The terror and humiliation all but destroy her sense of self till two events occur to ...
