On a December night, Anjali waits in vain for her army officer husband to pick her up at the train station in Bhopal, India. In an instant, her world changes forever. Her anger at her husband being late turns to horror when a catastrophic gas leak poisons the city air. Anjali miraculously survives. Her marriage does not.
Sixteen years later, Anjali is married to Sandeep, a loving and stable professor. Their lives would be nearly perfect, if not for their young son's declining health. But when Anjali's first husband suddenly reappears in her life, she is thrown back to the troubling days of their marriage with a force that impacts everyone around her.
Her first husband's return brings back all the uncertainty Anjali thought time and conviction had healed - about her bold decision to walk away from an arranged marriage and get a divorce. Anjali's struggles to reconcile her roles of wife and ex-wife, working woman and mother, illuminate both the duality of the modern Indian woman and the difficult choices all women must make.
Beautifully melding the exotic and the everyday, 'A Breath Of Fresh Air' resonates with meaning and the abiding power of love.
