The young American woman Olivia O'Rourke has been invited by her aunt who lives in India.Lady Bridget Templewood is looking for a husband for her niece.Olivia discovers the life of the British colonialists in India and doesn't feel very well in this British society in 1920. She will meet Jai Raventhorne, the adoptive brother of the maharajah.Jai hate all what is English ,especially the Templewood family.Jai is for them a stranger, a pariah.Little by little Olivia and Jai will fall in love.