Roopa Farooki

In 1950s Bengal, Henna Rub, a precocious, wayward teenager, brings off a brilliant marriage to a wealthy romantic, Ricky Karim, trapping him with a web of lies that she has spun with her wheeler-dealer father. And so on his wedding night, believing himself married to an educated, sonnet-reading, tennis-playing soul mate, Ricky is horrified to discover that his new bride is in fact a lazy, illiterate, shopkeeper's daughter. As Ricky and Henna uneasily...

Orphaned in early adulthood, the three Murphy siblings struggle with challenges related to the eldest's autism and the resentment and heightened responsibilities of the younger two, a situation that threatens to tear them apart.