Nikki lives in cosmopolitan West London, where she tends bar at the local pub. The daughter of Indian immigrants, she<U+2019>s spent most of her twenty-odd years distancing herself from the traditional Sikh community of her childhood, preferring a more independent (that is, Western) life. When her father<U+2019>s death leaves the family financially strapped, Nikki, a law school dropout, impulsively takes a job teaching a "creative writing" course at the community center in the beating heart of London<U+2019>s close-knit Punjabi community. Because of a miscommunication, the proper Sikh widows who show up are expecting to learn basic English literacy, not the art of short-story writing. When one of the widows finds a book of sexy stories in English and shares it with the class, Nikki realizes that beneath their white dupattas, her students have a wealth of fantasies and memories. Eager to liberate these modest women, she teaches them how to express their untold stories, unleashing creativity of the most unexpected<U+2014>and exciting<U+2014>kind. As more women are drawn to the class, Nikki warns her students to keep their work secret from the Brotherhood, a group of highly conservative young men who have appointed themselves the community<U+2019>s "moral police." But when the widows<U+2019> gossip offers shocking insights into the death of a young wife<U+2014>a modern woman like Nikki<U+2014>and some of the class erotica is shared among friends, it sparks a scandal that threatens them all.