 Lakshmi, a young Indian woman living in a comfortable suburb of San Francisco, tries to deal with her 18 year marrage to Prithivi falling apart due to his obsession with his business and their rebelious teenage daughter Dirya. Lakshmi seeks solace with an Internet chat room under her alias  Mitr  (Hindi for My Friend) and satsifying her loneless with computer programmer Steve who moves into the house next door and shows her things not-so-traditional Indian women wouldn t want to explore.