Overview
India, 1922: Perveen MistryĀ is the only female lawyer in Bombay, a city where child mortality is high, birth control is unavailableĀ and very few women have ever seen a doctor.
Perveen is attending a lavishĀ fundraiserĀ for a new womenās hospitalĀ specializing inĀ maternal health issuesĀ when she witnesses anĀ accident. The grandson of an influentialĀ Gujarati businessmanĀ catches fireābut a servant, hisĀ young ayah, Sunanda, rushes to save him, selflessly putting herself in harmās way.Ā Later, Perveen learns that Sunanda, whoās still ailing from her burns, has beenĀ arrestedĀ on trumped-up chargesĀ made by a manĀ who doesnāt seem to exist.Ā Ā
Perveen cannot stand byĀ whileĀ SunandaĀ languishes in jail with no hope of justice. She takes Sunanda asĀ a client, even inviting her to live at the Mistry home in Bombayās Dadar Parsi colony.Ā But theĀ joint familyĀ householdĀ is already full of tension.Ā Perveenās father worries about their law firm taking so much personal responsibility for a client, and her brother andĀ sister-in-lawĀ areĀ strugglingĀ to cope with their new baby.Ā Perveen herself is going through personalĀ turmoil as she navigates a taboo relationship withĀ a handsomeĀ former civil service officer.Ā
When the hospitalās chief donor dies suddenly, Miriam Penkar, a Jewish-Indian obstetrician, and Sunanda become suspects. Perveenās original case spirals into a complex investigation taking her into the Gujarati strongholds of Kalbadevi and Ghatkopar, and up the coast to Juhu Beach, where a decadent nawab lives with his Australian trophy wife. Then a second fire erupts, andĀ PerveenĀ realizes how much is at stake. HasĀ someoneĀ powerfulĀ framed Sunanda to cover up another crime? Will Perveen be able to prove Sunandaās innocence without endangering her own family?
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