In these eleven intersecting stories Rohinton Mistry opens our eyes and our hearts to the rich complex patterns of life inside this Bombay apartment building. The occupants - from Jaakaylee the ghost-seer through Najamai the only owner of a refrigerator in Firozsha Baag to Rustomji the Curmudgeon and Kersi the young boy whose life threads through the book - all express the tensions between the past and the present between the old world and the new.