Bikram is an Indian software professional who had migrated to America many years back on work and had since then settled down permanently like many skilled and highly educated Indian professionals in that country. After a few years, he started his own family and married a homely Indian woman named Shefali, whom he moved overseas with him from India with a permanent visa. Things were happy with the young couple getting used to the American way of living and, soon, they had their first child, whom they had affectionately named Tito.
Shefali was happily attending to her child full time and, she soon started moving around with her child when Bikram was away from home with his day job. During one of such outdoor strolls, the child got stolen by a habitual offender and history-sheeter and thereby devastated the couple’s peaceful abode. A sense of guilt and deep remorse amidst the tragedy led to eventual separation and, the spouses drifted apart.
Long-term psychiatric counseling saved Shefali from turning insane and, her lonely world started limping back with a day job at a child daycare center. More than helping Shefali to survive, the job acted as a balm to soothe Shefali’s unfulfilled motherly yearnings. But the twist of fate had more in store for Sefali as she heard the news that threatened to reopen her wounds fresh.
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