Mandira, a girl from Calcutta, goes to London to pursue higher studies. Within a
few months of arriving there, she marries Thomas Brockway, a promising young
aristocrat with enviable political lineage. By the time Tom (Thomas) has been
elected M.P., Mandira finds herself celebrating the silver jubilee anniversary
of their marriage. Her grown-up children, Robin and Liz, are well settled in
life. Suddenly at this juncture, Mandira experiences a strange emotional crisis.
All at once, she brings down the curtain on her twenty-six years of married life
and opts for a different way of lifeâ€"of self-imposed solitude, initially in
England and then in India. But to what