Seis días en Bombay

When the celebrated painter Mira Novak arrives at Bombay's Wadia Hospital after suffering a miscarriage, she is expected to make a quick recovery. Sona is excited to spend time with this cosmopolitan woman who shares her half-Indian identity, though that's where their similarities end. Sona is fascinated by Mira's travelogues and shocked by the stories of the many lovers she has left behind across Europe. Over the course of a week, Mira befriends Sona and sees in her something greater than the small life she leads with her mother. Mira is discharged just in time to attend a lavish engagement party with Bombay's elite and invites Sona to accompany her. But the next day, Mira is readmitted to the hospital in worse condition than before, and when she dies under mysterious circumstances, Sona immediately falls under suspicion. Before leaving the hospital in disgrace, Sona receives a note left by Mira, along with her four favorite paintings. But how could she have left a note if she didn't know she was going to die? The message propels Sona on a mission: to deliver three of the paintings, the first to Petra, Mira's childhood friend and first love in Prague; the second to Josephine, her art dealer in Paris; and the third to Paolo, her first painting tutor, with whom both Mira and her mother had affairs. As Sona unravels Mira's story, she discovers that the charming facade she knew was only one facet of a complex and, at times, cruel woman. But can she uncover what really happened to Mira and clear her name? Along the way, Sona also confronts her own past and the English father who abandoned her and her mother in India years before. In the end, she discovers that we are all made of fragments and that only by seeing the world do we learn to see ourselves.