The story of a woman who had shifted to Calcutta, in the monsoon of 2016, with a desk job, in a lifestyle magazine. It is a story about her daily struggles with her past memories. The broken marriage. The escape from a government-sponsored pogrom. The pain. The loneliness. The misunderstandings. It is a story about her life in Calcutta. How she falls in love with the city. Its streets. Its cafés. The people. Their stories. Their benevolence. And every other thing that makes the city so special.

The story talks about her experiences with the recipes that she discovers, over time. The emotions that they evoke, inside her. The memories that they help her, revisit. The politics of food. The socio-religious debate, intertwined with it. Of what can be eaten and what cannot be. Of what can be cooked and what is prohibited.

But mostly, the novella explores the connection that she develops with her feline roommate, Grey.