When Ragini Krishnan becomes pregnant for the second time, she thinks she's finally going to give her husband the son they both desperately want. However, she gives birth to yet another unwanted female child whom she names Uma. "I should have strangled you when you were born," she later tells her daughter.
Raised by a governess and Irish Catholic nuns in a private boarding school, Uma despises her privileged education, and she's a dismal failure...