While recuperating from an illness, a British engineer, Allan (Hugh Grant), falls in love with the beautiful Bengali teenage daughter (Supriya Pathak) of his hostess. When the young woman's family learns of the affair, a lovelorn Allan must leave the house. Meanwhile, &NFi;Life&NFi_; magazine photographer Lucien Metz (John Hurt) convinces his friend that staying in India may not be in the heartbroken man's best interest. Nicolas Klotz directs.