Kolkata is an ancient city of thinkers, philosophers, musicians, artists, and poets. It is a place of mysterious legends and bizarre cults, where divine beauty and repulsive ugliness coexist, spiritual heights and the poverty of the residents of cramped lodging houses, the subtlest fragrances of incense and the stench of decay.
On assignment from his newspaper, journalist Robert Luzak travels here to obtain for America a manuscript by the poet Das—student of the legendary Rabindranath Tagore. But an ordinary business trip suddenly turns into a chain of frightening and inexplicable events…