Gangoobai, a childless, elderly widow, lives in the tiny colonial hill station of Matheran where she loves to tend to her beloved flowers in an eco-sensitive zone where no vehicles are allowed, not even bicycles. Gangoobai's life altering moment arrives when she sees Hodiwala's teenage daughter wearing a magnificent designer Parsi sari of white Chinese motifs embroidered on a background of purple silk. She instantly falls in love with this exotic, expensive, custom-made creation - and longs to own one herself.
Driven by this unlikely obsession, she finds herself in the big, polluted, overcrowded city of Mumbai - an urban nightmare she is utterly unprepared for. Yet, her essential goodness sets her life on a path that surpasses anything that she could ever have imagined...