'I cannot undo what they have made of me. I cannot go back and smoothen out the wrinkled brow of my childhood... there are things I must settle, gaps I must fill. Both for their sake and mine. It is the 1930s and the fire of the freedom movement from distant Bengal and Delhi is warming the languid bones of the small town in Mysore, where Kaveri and Setu grow up. Theirs is a liberal, prosperous household and the family takes its privileges for granted. ...