Mrs. Iyer is traveling by bus to Calcutta to be with her husband. But a flare-up between Hindus and Muslim extremists closes the roads and a curfew descends. While the passengers are trapped on the bus a gang of Hindus boards to ferret out any Muslims. Mrs. Iyer was brought up to believe that Muslims were inferior but during the journey she comes to realize that it`s who a person is not their religions that`s the defining factor.