When Indian American journalist Smita returns to India to write the story about the abuse of a young widow, it's Smita's first time back since her family left when she was just eleven years old. Now, back on assignment, she is forced to reckon with a brutal situation whose outcome she can't control; to admit to the privilege that becoming an American has given her; and ultimately, to reveal her own hidden history. At what cost did she take on a new identity? Lovely, perceptive, and heartbreaking, this is a story about a woman's love of country and her roots, while at the same time she must face that it is place where terrible things have occurred.