Ashok lives with his mother Anjali in a Bombay flat. He is mesmerized by the gory picture of the goddess Kali that Hirabai the new servant has brought with her. Anjali has inherited a wrenching mental illness from her father. Mira knows the horrors of her husband's illness, his devastating suicide and the poverty she had to battle to raise Anjali. Determined that Anjali will marry well despite her illness she forces her into an arranged marriage with Samir, a computer programmer with good prospects. The marriage however is doomed from the start as Anjali has loved Daryl, an artist who was...