When Simran dies in 1989, Lekha, adrift and unfulfilled, travels to Berlin to settle her estranged aunt’s affairs. Swept up in a city in flux, a brief, practical journey soon unravels as an excavation of memory, longing, and forces that shape lives across time and place. Yet Simran’s story is incomplete, at least until Prushna comes into view, her quiet audacity illuminating the hidden history of a family marked by Partition, upheaval and exile. Spanning decades and continents, _Light Across the Plains_ traces the inextricable links between three generations of a family as they push against the confines of the times they live in and cling to the choices they make.