Delving back into the world into which her grandmother was born in a tiny
village in Kathiawar, India, Mira Kamdar begins a wondrous journey into the
past. She follows her family as it emigrates from the feudal, rural India of
1900 to the bustling streets of Rangoon in the 1920s and 1930s. After a
harrowing flight out of war-torn Burma, the family returns to their profitable
businesses, only to be stripped of everything and expelled by the Burmese
dictatorship in the early 1960s. The family begins a new life in Bombay. It is
there that they are first introduced to America. Hollywood captures the
imagination of Kamdar's