A student waits at a bus stop, in a hurry, but the bus never comes. He waits as life passes him by: school/college graduation, first job, marriage, baby shower, growing old...until we see his tombstone. Only then does the bus finally arrive.

Isolated in a picture-perfect American suburb, an Indian housewife is pushed past her breaking point by her controlling husband and begins to unravel as years of silence and control awakens something ancient inside her—the fierce spirit of Kali Ma: Hindu Goddess of time and death, destruction of evil and liberation.