Autumn 1928 Three young women are on their way to India, each with a new life in mind Rose, a beautiful but naive bride-to-be, is anxious about leaving her family and marrying a man she hardly knows Victoria, her bridesmaid couldn't be happier to get away from her overbearing mother, and is determined to find herself a husband And Viva, their inexperienced chaperone, is in search of the India of her childhood, ghosts from the past and freedom