Sheela, an English activist of Indian origin, learns that her father has died, devoured by a tiger! Despite her hatred for this father and his culture, who returned to India by abandoning them, she and her mother, Sheela and her husband Simon, go to India to sell the property she inherited. When they arrive, they encounter Bindu, a white hippie, who declares himself to be her father’s 'spiritual son', and who claims rather violently his right for the property. Not without charming Sheela...