Nikki, a modern daughter of Indian immigrants, has spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring her independent Western life. When her father's death leaves her family financially strapped, Nikki impulsively takes a job teaching creative writing at the community center in London's close-knit Punjabi community. The proper Sikh widows who turn up want to learn English, not creative writing. But beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories they have withheld from far too long.
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