Meera is happily submerged in the role of corporate wife and writer of cookbooks. Then one day her husband fails to come home. Overnight she becomes responsible not just for her children Nayantara and Nikhil but also her mother Saro her grandmother Lily and the running of Lilac House their rambling old family home in Bangalore. Professor J.A. Krishnamurthy or Jak cyclone studies expert survivor of one marriage and several other encounters has only recently returned from America. In a bedroom i