This story follows an interplay of emotions at a dinner table between a Parsi i.e. Persian Zoroastrian, woman and her two sons, Jamshed, a successful orthopedist, who runs a private clinic and Phiroze, also an orthopedist, who toils in a government hospital, treating the poverty stricken. The outspoken Phiroze is envious of his Mother's apparent preference towards his financially successful brother, the reticent Jamshed, wary of his brother's jealous nature, hides his every success from him and the Mother, torn between her two sons, struggles to maintain a semblance of balance, both in the family and within herself.