At 27, Jason Tally of Corning, New York, leads an orderly life, processing loans for a mortgage company. The highlight of his life is his friendship with Sriram Sundaram and his lively wife, Vidya. One night, Sriram secretly confides he's planning a trip home to India to visit his mother and asks Jason to look after her gift, a gorgeous red silk sari. The very next evening Jason arrives home to sirens and cops - Sriram and Vidya are dead. The cops call it a murder/suicide. Grieving, Jason decides to fulfill Sriram's quest and impulsively books himself a trip to India. There's a gorgeous young woman aboard, a train buff with an escape plan, and before he knows it, Jason has cast aside all semblance of order and embarked with Rachel on a perilous journey, but, he doesn't realize how dangerous it will be, since only now does he learn that Sriram, a computer genius, was believed to have sold out his colleagues. Jason has sent details of his trip to Sriram's e-mail list, hoping to meet up with his dead friend's past. But when he does...