Nishant is an Indian living in Paris. He meets an unusual woman, Jaya in a cemetery. She claims to live two lives, her own and that of Nadja, the 1920s beauty, who had inspired Andre Breton to write a book on her. The woman disappears mysteriously, and Nishant undertakes a journey to the Ganga, for which Jaya had an obsessive love. On the river he meets Zehra, a poet and dancer who reminds him of Jaya. He persuades her to leave her brothel and join him on his journey down the Ganga.