On a drunken party night, young and attractive Lakshmi kidnaps Placid Hari, a
journalist, mistaking him to be the man who raped her sixteen years ago. The
morning after alters the course of events: Lakshmi and Hari find themselves
taken hostage in a terrorist siege of Bombay along with a teenage fledgling
actor. The jihadi-in-charge is the boysoldier Salim, trained in Pakistan by Abul
Razak, the object of whose hallucinogenic passion is Salim's mother. Before the
day is done, Salim finds that nothing back home could have prepared him for the
fatal eventualities of his mission and his tryst with the compelling story of
blood and tears