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In voice-over, the grown-up and infinitely saddened Lenny recalls her childhood in Lahore, Pakistan. She was a Parsee, that is, an aristocrat born to privilege and wealth but aware that she stood somewhere outside the oppositional cultures that boiled toward detonation as the English rule waned. Her mother is nice but somewhat inept; her true mother and friend is her nanny, the beautiful young Shanta (Nandita Das) a Hindu girl.
Each day, Shanta takes the young Lenny (beautifully played by Maia Sethna) to the park, where, with her
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