Synopsis Calcutta in the seventies - a place where, amidst political unrest, love blossomed in the quiet afternoons under the spell of the songs of Rabindranath Tagore mingling with the melodies of Western classical music. It was the city where Rukmini spent her childhood and her adolescence and found love. Career takes Rukmini to the cloud-laden mountains of Mussoorie, where men and women like her have come to learn about India, that is Bharat. As she travels from Mussoorie to Madhya Pradesh and to Bihar, moving through vast landscapes, coming across unfamiliar faces, and encounters the harsh realities of poverty, illiteracy and unequal development, the question, 'where is real India', keeps continually cropping up in her mind. However the strains of 'romantic idealism' of the seventies remain the source of haunting tenderness that balances the disturbing experience of the real India.