When Simran dies in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to Berlin to settle her estranged aunt's affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, a brief, practical journey soon unravels as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place.
Spanning decades and continents, Light Across the Plains traces the inextricable links between three generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in and cling to the choices they make.