Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens Calcutta the 1940s. In a ramshackle house streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British live Maisy her Mam and their ayah Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune. But Maisy's more at home in the city's forbidden alleyways than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands. Then one day Maisy's tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic handsome and ambitious for an independent India Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world. So begins a love affair that will determine her future as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble...