In 1938 colonial India, 8-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live out their lives in penitence; there her feisty presence affects the lives of the other residents, including a beautiful young widow who falls in love with a Gandhian idealist.
Special features (disc 1): director's commentary, scene index, song index.
Special features (disc 2): feature film (alternate version, filmed in English and never before released), behind-the-scenes featurette, making-of featurette, bonus TV special, theatrical trailer, stills gallery, deleted scenes.