The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on Amit's mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home.

A novelist who is also named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay - a setting reeling from the 2008 terrorist attacks - and finds himself preoccupied with the absence of his opaque and drifting childhood friend Ramu. Chaudhuri is a favourite of James Wood, Anne Enright and Jonathan Coe.