North-east India, 1945. Tensions are rising, but fourteen-year-old Joya
doesn't pay much attention to 'political business' - she is more
concerned with doing well at school and having fun with her best
friends. Yet when her father disappears without a trace, Joya's life
falls apart.
Forced to drop out of school and support her mother by working in a
garment factory, she refuses to accept that her father is gone forever,
spending her nights sewing him a suit from scraps of fine material. But
as political unrest grows and rumors of corruption spread, Joya
questions the true nature of her father's disappearance. And who is the
sinister figure known only as the two-tailed snake?