Born in a big old Calcutta house on the same night, the wild, tragic night their
fathers were both mysteriously lost, Sudha and Anju are cousins. Closer even
than sisters, they share clothes, possessions, worries, dreams - and three
mothers, who preside over the matriarchal Chatterjee household. But when Sudha
discovers a terrible secret about their past, their mutual loyalty is sorely
tested. A family crisis forces the mothers to start the serious business of
arranging the girls' marriages, and the inseparable pair are torn apart. Sudha
moves to her new family'as home in rural Bengal, while Anju joins her immigrant
husband in California. But nothing has