This, the story of three generations of an Indian family, begins in 1907 with the founding of a factory in Songarh, a small provincial town where narrow attitudes prevail. Amulya and Kananbala have two sons and as their family, house and garden grow, a microcosm of a society develops. A society that is scholarly, eccentric, hide-bound, fraught with drama and destined to self-destruct.
