"Pacific Hills, California: Gated communities, ocean views, well-tended lawns, serene pools, and now the new home of the Shah family. For the Shah parents, who came to America twenty years earlier with little more than an education and their new marriage, this move represents the culmination of years of hard work and dreaming. For their children, born and raised in America, success is not so simple. For the most part, these differences among the five...

After his father dies, Anil Patel, an Indian doctor doing his medical residency in Texas, becomes the head of his family's small village back home, while his childhood friend, Leena, struggles with the difficulties of an arranged marriage.