Bipasha Choudhury, writer and poet in the English language, living in London for some years, is in Czechoslovakia, as part of a writer's group - a visit that is set to change her in more ways than one. This is a time when Czechoslovakia is still a socialist state under Soviet dominion, poised for a major upheaval and change. In this milieu of brewing internal struggle for identity, a life-churning experience awaits Bipasha. Looking for answers outside, Bipasha is about to discover a valuable part of herself to pave a new destiny - in a foreign land, by chance. The novel is about language and identity that came before the tide of Indian Writing in English that touched India's shores.