All Mrinalini Singh wants she has. A loving husband, a competent cook, the vague hope of a book deal one day. But when her old roommate Jahanara accuses her of being selfish, Mrinalini is forced to practise altruism on the nearest available target: her maid’s toddler. All this caring doesn’t come easy, though, and it hardly helps that her husband Siddhartha has quit his lucrative job and acquired parental ambitions.