Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the citys slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, ironical, sad, Ram is also a man tortured by a terrible guilty secret. When Rajiv Gandhi, the soon-to-be Prime Minister, is murdered, the country is plunged into confusion and Ram, as his departments resident bribe-collector, is trapp