Lila, a fisherwoman's daughter, grew up in the lakeside village but she was sure she wouldn't die there. Turail, a school teacher's son, going out of home town for higher studies didn't think of coming back. The City Beautiful brings them together for a duet summer song. How far can they run away from home or the past? A novel of Generation Next young adults, a tale of love and lust, of disillusionment and disloyalty, of making and unmaking careers and selves, of two ordinary individuals whose song is disturbed by the clamour of unruly Time.