The drama is set against the backdrop of the Himalayas and Northern India's tea plantations, exploring the decline of the British Empire and the birth of modern India from both perspectives. The story revolves around the complex relationships and conflicts between individuals whose lives are forever changed in the summer of 1932. As India yearns for independence, the British cling to power, and the British power brokers govern from Simla, a little England in the Himalayas.
Alice Whelan, a woman on the run from her unfaithful husband in England, assu...