The year is 1970. Ram Sharma, a freshly minted Electrical Engineer from IIT Bombay, whose expertise has already been harnessed by the Indian Defense Ministry, is on his way to the United States to get a master's degree. There, he hopes, he will also find opportunities to display his sitar playing skills in a country besotted by Pandit Ravi Shankar. Little does he know that his well-laid plans will go awry, and he will find himself caught in a vortex of international espionage and the machinations of a desperate music band. Meanwhile, in faraway East Pakistan, young Zillur Zaman flees the rising tide of violence that has gripped his homeland. Their paths cross, but will they find what they are looking for in the land of dreams and opportunity?