Govinda, a Californian doctor, is forced to return to his motherland in India when his estranged father falls ill. The father refuses his son's treatment and prefers instead to undertake a journey into their pasts to try and reconcile their broken relationships before time runs out.

Govinda despises India almost as much as his father embraces it. It is dirty, superstitious and the place that has snatched away the thing he loved the most. As the tension between father and son grows, Govinda gets drawn back into the mystery surrounding his loss striking up old skeletons that threaten to split the family apart forever.

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Although born to an Indian father and Anglo mother, Shyam Balse is a true California boy at heart. After earning a BA with highest honors in Socio-Cultural Anthropology and graduating Magna Cum Laude from UC San Diego, Shaym moved to Los Angeles to make a life in the televisiona and film industry. Since then he has produced dozens of hours of programming for Paramount Television, Travel Channel, Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet and other Discovery networks. Shyam has recently completed an MFA in Film Production Progam at the School of Cinema - Television, University of Southern California.