After Randi, an American in India who translates pulp fiction into Tibetan, finishes her latest project, she's stuck in her apartment during monsoon season with too much time to think.
She flees to a ten-day Buddhist retreat to find peace and quiet: but all it does is expose her to a bunch of chatterbox kids and rude guys with bad gas. Too old to flirt with the Norwegian meditation teacher. Too young for menopause. So much for finding meaning in her life.