At the start of the new millennium, Aftab's life came undone. He turned forty,
and his wife of fourteen years left him for another man, taking their only child
with her. Now he is on a train to Dehradun, the town of his childhood, doing the
one thing he feels he is still good at: running away. As he looks back on his
imperfect past, crowded with personal and professional compromises, only a slim
hope saves him from despair: perhaps this flight will give him a second chance
to reclaim a long-lost love that could have been his, had he the courage of his
convictions. And